CouchDB Database for the Web

About the author

Born in Kolkata, India in 1977, Piyas De made a headstrong effort to learn, develop, deliver, teach and share his knowledge on different type of software languages and technologies especially on Java/J2EE and related open source technologies.

Being A Sun Microsystems Certified Enterprise Architect with more than 10 long years of professional IT experience in various areas such as Architecture Definition, Define Enterprise Application, Client-server / e-business solutions, he possess hands on experience to handle a wide range of database ranging from PostGreSQL, SQL Server, Oracle to Sybase, MySQL and NoSQL databases like MongoDB.

CouchDB, is an open source database that focuses on ease of use and on being “a database that completely embraces the web”. It is a NoSQL database that uses JSON to store data, JavaScript as its query language using MapReduce, and HTTP for an API. One of its distinguishing features is multi-master replication. CouchDB was first released in 2005 and later became an Apache project in 2008.

This is a hands-on course on CouchDB. You will learn how to install and configure CouchDB and how to perform common operations with it.

Additionally, you will build an example application from scratch and then finish the course with more advanced topics like scaling, replication and load balancing.

 

CouchDB Database for the Web includes:

  1. Installation – How to Install CouchDB
  2. Basics and Operations
  3. Design documents
  4. Building a Blog Application with CouchDB
  5. Deploying and Optimizing CouchDB
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