CouchDB: the definitive guide
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TL;DR
This book introduces you to Apache CouchDB, a document-oriented database that offers a different way to model your data, and explains basic document CRUD, advanced MapReduce, and deployment tuning for performance and reliability.
Abstract
Three of CouchDB's creators show you how to use this document-oriented database as a standalone application framework or with high-volume, distributed applications. With its simple model for storing, processing, and accessing data, CouchDB is ideal for web applications that handle huge amounts of loosely structured data. That alone would stretch the limits of a relational database, yet CouchDB offers an open source solution that's reliable, scales easily, and responds quickly. CouchDB works with self-contained data that has loose or ad-hoc connections. It's a model that fits many real-world