Simon Willison’s Weblog

A Gentle Introduction to CouchDB for Relational Practitioners. By “High Performance MySQL” author Baron Schwartz—a smart, concise overview that touches pretty much everything that’s interesting about CouchDB.

# 22nd September 2010, 9:51 pm / couchdb, databases, recovered

Rules of Database App Aging. Peter Harkins: All fields become optional, all relationships become many-to-many, chatter always expands. This is why document oriented databases such as CouchDB are looking more and more attractive.

# 18th January 2009, 9:09 am / couchdb, databases, peter-harkins

CouchDB “Joins”. Different approaches to indexing a blog post and its associated comments in the non-relational CouchDB.

# 25th October 2007, 8:27 am / christopher-lenz, couchdb, databases, erlang, joins, relational, views

CouchDB: Thinking beyond the RDBMS. CouchDB is a fascinating project—an Erlang powered non-relational database with a JSON API that lets you define “views” (really computed tables) based on JavaScript functions that execute using map/reduce. Damien Katz, the main developer currently works for MySQL and used to work on Lotus Notes.

# 3rd September 2007, 9:48 am / couchdb, damien-katz, databases, erlang, javascript, json, lotusnotes, mapreduce, mysql