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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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Victor Pease Solano | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 7 out of 10
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CouchDB is corporate wide solution used for:

  • route planning for sales force
  • a central farm and mobile devices replicating the content partitioned per user
  • Syncrhonization
  • Fast http interface
  • Dead easy scalability
  • Authentication
  • Security (you must compile your own https capable instance)
  • Project mango is not built in yet
CouchDB is best suited for:
  • db front end for mobile applications
  • apps with no intensive data entry requirements
It is not suited for:
  • bulk operations
  • apps with server side requirements
  • complex queries
  • better hardware utilization
  • bandwidth isolation because replication allows local data
  • couchdb is free
  • Cloudant
CouchbaseDB is essentially faster with more options but of course with a cost. Cloudant is the hosted option with a better security schema.
couchdb is basic, there are options like mango query and https that must be included as built in but [are] not yet.
  • Implemented in-house
Yes
design: this is the most critical one,because we need to define what is couchdb to be used according to their capabilities.
implementation: here we define how to perform all the operations related to the db like data import, export , replication and notifications.
testing: during all stages we had to test all the features on couchdb and this is pretty easy because we can have a test server with the replication feature
Change management was a big part of the implementation and was well-handled
the main one: you have to change the way of doing things inside the it department because they are used to relational tools. Sometimes simple admin tasks are not trusted by IT and when dealing with databases is more critical because they expect data models and access and indexes. Its difficult to understand that some simple tools can do a good job
  • Make IT to understand they don't need a tool to "query" data on CouchDB. All data is managed by the app
  • Disk management is the most critical part but that can be managed with a replication strategy
  • Filtered replication debug was an issue at the very beginning
  • Cors was an issue for some apps
it support is minimal also hw requirements. Also for development, we can have databases replicated everywhere and the replication is automagical. once you set up the security and the rules for replication, you are ready to go. The absence of a model let you build your app the way you want it
  • replication control
  • logging
  • data browsing
  • user management
  • db permissions
  • server configuration
No
Couchdb is very simple to use and the features are also reduced but well implemented. In order to use it the way its designed, the ui is adequate and easy. Of course, there are some other task that can't be performed through the admin ui but the minimalistic design allows you to use external libraries to develop custom scripts
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