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What is CouchDB?

Apache CouchDB is an HTTP + JSON document database with Map Reduce views and bi-directional replication. The Couch Replication Protocol is implemented in a variety of projects and products that span computing environments from globally distributed server-clusters, over mobile phones…

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CouchDB has proven to be a valuable tool in various industries and projects. For instance, it is widely used in the Big Data Insight …
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Chillaxin

9 out of 10
April 19, 2016
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CouchDB was used for data replication across different audiences and when users were in offline mode (no/low internet). It was initially …
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What is CouchDB?

Apache CouchDB is an HTTP + JSON document database with Map Reduce views and bi-directional replication. The Couch Replication Protocol is implemented in a variety of projects and products that span computing environments from globally distributed server-clusters, over mobile phones to web browsers.

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CouchDB has proven to be a valuable tool in various industries and projects. For instance, it is widely used in the Big Data Insight Product Division for development and production environment setups. Its flexibility and scalability make it an attractive alternative to relational databases like MySQL, especially when handling large amounts of unstructured data. In media-oriented companies such as advertising and film, CouchDB is utilized to manage vast quantities of distributed and rapidly changing file sets.

Additionally, CouchDB finds its utility in mobile applications that require offline data storage. The sync capability of the database has been highly beneficial in ensuring seamless data availability even when users are offline. Legacy applications that previously relied on SQL databases have successfully migrated to CouchDB, resulting in improved response times. Another use case involves route planning for sales forces, where CouchDB serves as a central farm for mobile devices, with content partitioned per user.

Moreover, CouchDB plays a crucial role in storing time-series data for test sensor networks, while introducing users to non-SQL concepts and technologies. Its simplicity, ease of setup and configuration, and developer friendliness have made it the go-to NoSQL database server for globally used network testing and security products. Customers value CouchDB for its ability to save and access thousands of crucial documents representing vital information for their activities.

Furthermore, CouchDB is leveraged by Datawhere, a file intelligence platform that helps individuals and businesses find digital assets across platforms, devices, and geographic barriers. By working seamlessly with Logstash and Elasticsearch, CouchDB provides fast and powerful search functionality for customers. It also assists in storing a million SERP pages gathered daily and parsing them to find ads on each page.

Overall, CouchDB's diverse use cases span from social media analytics systems to file management in media-oriented companies, enabling offline data storage in mobile apps, facilitating database migration from SQL systems, supporting route planning for sales forces, storing time-series data for sensor networks, and serving as the main NoSQL information database server for global network testing and security products. Its versatility, reliability, and ease of use position it as a valuable tool in various domains.

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Score 10 out of 10
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Great for REST API development, if you want a small, fast server that will send and receive JSON structures, CouchDB is hard to beat. Not great for enterprise-level relational database querying (no kidding). While by definition, document-oriented databases are not relational, porting or migrating from relational, and using CouchDB as a backend is probably not a wise move as it's reliable, but It may not always be highly available.
Johanes Siregar | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
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Verified User
Incentivized
CouchDB is particularly suitable for storing unstructured or semi-structured data that does not require strict fields and data types. JSON document with RESTful HTTP API for operation is highly desirable to be stored as a serialized object for Web and Mobile applications. However, NoSQL and Map-Reduce paradigm might be a significant hurdle to integrate with SQL-RDBMS system.
Dave Lundberg | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
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Verified User
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We have a read-heavy environment and CouchDB excels for us. We also use Elasticsearch with CouchDB for powerful and fast searching. We also have both SaaS and self-hosted deployments of our technology. CouchDB has been great to use on our infrastructure, as well as on our customer's systems. Simple to deploy, virtually no management. Scales to all sorts of hardware (we have it on Raspberry PIs!).

Do your homework and understand the nature of your data and how it needs to be stored, accessed, and moved around. Make sure that NoSQL fits your problem. If it does, look at CouchDB. It isn't the most popular NoSQL database, but we love it.
Josh Stapp | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 2 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
If you want to do more than just storing files on the server, need to share them over the net and not use S3 then couchDB might work out. If you need something with performance and are writing 100GB daily, CouchDB is gonna have a hard time, particularly when you want to start actually deleting with compact rather than their delete that just soft deletes.

Aditya Peshave | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Well Suited: Services/applications that return or act as a backend to the application that require a fast throughput.
Less Appropriate: Data structure is too complex to do denormalization and will require multiple hops to serve one request.
Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I can say that generally if your application is in need for a data store where you care more about dumping data than extracting and viewing it, use CouchDB. It's fast. However, you should know that if your data grows really big, reindexing slows down everything. And I can recall many scenarios when reindexing took the database down for a few minutes after every production deploy, that we had to take the website down for a few minutes reporting to our clients temporary unavailability of service (which was expected after a major upgrade).

If your product depends heavily of mining data, stay away from CouchDB, since it's not the best out there when it comes to data search capabilities. May be then it's worth more looking into other options like MongoDB.
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