Apache CouchDB is a database that uses JSON for documents, JavaScript for MapReduce queries, and regular HTTP for an API.

Releases

1.5.1 (2014-04-08) http://www.apache.org/dist/couchdb/notes/1.5.1/apache-couchdb-1.5.1.html

Recent Activity

• Started with weekly news with great success. Also available at https://blogs.apache.org/couchdb/
• The community is in the process of creating a CoC and bylaws
• Ongoing work on the release 1.6.0. Actually voting on Apache CouchDB 1.6.0-rc.4
• Working on the BigCouch merge from Cloudant
• Good progress in reviewing the rcouch merge
• Community work on migrating content to the new wiki started
• Translation work going well

Community

Including the following additions, CouchDB has 35 committers and 12 PMC members.

New committers:

• Robert Kowalski

New PMC members:

• Joan Touzet

Mailing list stats:

announce

• 175 subscribers (+24)
• 1 message since February (1)

user

• 1386 subscribers (-19)
• 750 messages since February (-336)

erlang

• 167 subscribers (+13)
• 1 messages since February (-13)

dev

• 599 subscribers (-3)
• 2630 messages since February (+1306)

commits

• 104 subscribers (0)
• 2655 messages since February (-80)

marketing

• 31 subscribers
• 312 messages since February

l10n

• 36 subscribers (+5)
• 16 messages since May (-191)

replication

• 54 subscribers (+7)
• 53 messages since February (+28)

Issues: None.

Weekly CouchDB meeting – summary

• 1.6.0 release: 1.6.0-rc.5 is out for testing, so for all systems go. 1.6.x CI is all green, a formal vote will be coming this week
• rcouch merge status: testing up to now showed it's functional, it will be suggested for integration branch merge
• BigCouch merge status: a massive progress has been made this week. Soon branches will be rewritten to clean up the history, afterwards the community will be asked for help with testing.
• Fauxton: agreement that Fauxton replaces Futon in CouchDB 2.0 (post merge) and that resolution of COUCHDB-1954 prior to that is critical. There'll be a thread on dev@ mailing list about this and release preparation.
• Bylaws, Code of Conduct, Diversity Statement: everyone in the community is still invited to read the by-laws draft and join the discussion on dev@ mailing list (see thread); an initial Code of Conduct and Diversity draft will be posted next week
• Project release artefacts: the current state of what the project release artefacts are will be documented and publicized

Major Discussions

Discussion: Project by-laws (ongoing discussion; see thread)

The first draft of the by-laws has been modified and is still being discussed. It can be found here, your comments are very welcome.

How to get results in descending order by date and without ID field (see thread)

The docs for result orders can be found here. To remove the ID field, users can use a list function.

Release Apache CouchDB 1.6.0 rc5 (ongoing testing and discussion; see thread)

The testing for all systems is still in progress. If you want to test, please follow this test procedure. The changes since last vote round can be found here.

Releases in the CouchDB Universe

• PouchDB 2.2.0 – including persistent mapreduce, eventemitter api, replication works for huge datasets
• highland-couchr 1.0.0 – streaming style API to CouchDB, using couchr under the hood
• massage-couch 0.1.0 – massage CouchDB documents with an OS daemon worker.

Opinions

• CouchDB – partioned dates and group levels to control aggregation granularity
• The Long Tail of Open Source (and You)
• Dealing with actor runtime environments on hierarchical shared memory multi-core platforms – Thesis for obtaining the Doctorate Degree in Sciences

Use Cases, Questions and Answers

• Stack Overflow: How to structure class for CouchDB HTTP api?
• Stack Overflow: Get selected latest 10 docs from CouchDB order[ed] by timestamp
• Stack Overflow: with Python, how can I save a json dumps as a CouchDB document?
• Stack Overflow: CouchDB reduce function — only return sum(value) that meets certain conditions
• Stack Overflow: CouchDB crashes after few minutes running
• Stack Overflow: How can I replay a header which is sent in request to CouchDB?
• Stack Overflow: AngularJS + NodeJS + CouchDB (no public answer yet)
• Stack Overflow: CouchDB Map function to get the data in between two dates

Get involved!

If you want to get into working on CouchDB:

• Help us testing Apache CouchDB 1.6.0 rc5! You'll find all important information on release artefacts and test procedure here.
• Here's a list of beginner tickets around our currently ongoing Fauxton-implementation. If you have any questions or need help, don't hesitate to contact us in the couchdb-dev IRC room (#couchdb-dev) – Garren (garren) and Sue (deathbear) are happy to help.

We'd be happy to have you!

Events

• May 13, Hamburg, Germany: the first CouchDB User Group meeting in Hamburg
• May 13, New York, USA: Database Superstars Panel, Future of NoSQL & NewSQL: CouchDB, NuoDB, OracleNoSQL

Job opportunities for people with CouchDB skills

• DevOps Engineer, New York, USA
• Work for any of JS, UI/UX, Node, CouchDB experience (see tweet), can work remote

… and also in the news

• The Meaning of Life – a talk (watch this!)

Posted on behalf of Lena Reinhard.