Release

• CouchDB 2.0 Developer Preview has been released last week. You can download it here, its features and more are described here

Major Discussions

Offline Replication / Synchronisation (see thread)

Question: due to infrastructural reasons, online synchronisation is impossible in a project. Thus, a user asked if it were possible to create some sort of file with the delta-update that could be transported to a place with better Internet access or to the next hub (e. g. country coordination) where it is imported in the instance running there, or anything similar that could be feasible.

Approaches:

• If connections are bad, but work sometimes, and the use case permits that data is only synchronised sometimes, then CouchDB’s current functionalities are sufficient.
• When connections are just always bad, the user can copy the .couch file (“the CouchDB database”) to something that they can bring to a connected hub. Then they put the .couch file into a place that can run CouchDB, start CouchDB, sync from there. CouchDB will figure out the delta. In this, the full DB will carried, but only the delta will be synchronised. Just carrying the delta is currently not really an option. If that is a concern, hacking around with pouchdb-replication-stream, pouchdb-dump-cli or pouchdb-load may help.

Releases in the CouchDB Universe

• crypto-pouch 1.1.1 – encrypted pouchdb/couchdb database
• ldjson-to-couchdb 0.0.2 – pipe STDIN in LDJSON format to CouchDB
• nano 6.0.2 – minimalistic couchdb driver for node.js
• wiki-storage-couchdb 0.0.3 – CouchDB storage for Federated Wiki

Opinions and other News in the CouchDB Universe

• Developer Preview of CouchDB 2.0 Database
• How to build web applications that work offline with PouchDB

Use Cases, Questions and Answers

• Stack Overflow: CouchDB-lucene for couchdb with admins and members
• Stack Overflow: Different data_size in replicated CouchDB databases
• Stack Overflow: Loopback.io and CouchDB connector
• Stack Overflow: Designing a relationship between documents in Couchbase/CouchDB?

No public answer yet:

• Stack Overflow: No pid file for CouchDB on Ubuntu 14.04
• Stack Overflow: CouchDB for Windows – SSL certificate – Connection error
• Stack Overflow: Ruby Updating CouchDB Database with CouchREST
• Stack Overflow: CouchDB query a document with multiple parameters
• Stack Overflow: _bulk_docs for binary data in CouchDB

For more new questions and answers about CouchDB, see these search results.

Get involved!

If you want to get into working on CouchDB:

• We have an infinite number of open contributor positions on CouchDB. Submit a pull request and join the project!
• Can you help with Web Design, Development or UX for our Admin Console? No Erlang skills required! – Get in touch with us.
• Do you want to help moving the CouchDB docs translation forward? We’d love to have you in our L10n team! See our current status and languages we’d like to provide CouchDB docs in on this page. If you’d like to help, don’t hesitate to contact the L10n mailing list on l10n@couchdb.apache.org or ping Andy Wenk (awenkhh on IRC).

We’d be happy to have you on board!

Events

• December 03, Portland, USA: Portland Erlang and Elixir User Group: Learning Erlang made me a better Engineer and Architect
• February 7, 2015: CouchDB Day 2015, Hamburg, Germany; ticket sale is now open

Job opportunities for people with CouchDB skills

• Solutions Architect, San Ramon, CA, USA
• Software Engineer, anywhere
• Senior DevOps Engineer, San Bruno, CA, USA
• C# .NET Backend Developer – Data Analytics, London, UK
• Senior Full-Stack JavaScript Developer, Berlin, Germany
• DevOps Engineer, Berlin, Germany
• System Administrator Linux, Germany

Time to relax!

• “It’s a mix of the transcendently magical and the deeply prosaic. It can be crowded, noisy, and occasionally uncomfortable. Space travel—at least the way we do it today—isn’t glamorous. But you can’t beat the view!” – An Astronaut reveals what life in space is really like
• “Just don’t merge. Let’s not have hate in git log.” – Engaging with hateful people in your community lends legitimacy to their presence
• “I cannot speak for all women ever, or for all women in tech, or for all women in operations. I’m mostly just an expert at being me-in-tech. I can definitely tell you that when “ops guys” is the generic, I feel like I’m in the out-group.” – The first rule of DevOps Club

… and also in the news

• The Man who made “Tetris”
• The secret life of passwords
• How Blacks and Latin@as are left out of Tech Hiring

Release

• CouchDB 2.0 Developer Preview has been released. You can download it here, its features and more are described here

Major Discussions

Guidelines for creating a CouchDB Event (Work in Progress; see thread)

New guidelines for creating a CouchDB Event have been set up, you’ll find them here. Your feedback is highly appreciated.

The Apache Software Foundation adopts CouchDB’s Code of Conduct and Diversity Statement (see thread)

On November 18, the ASF has adopted the CouchDB Code of Conduct and Diversity Statement into an official ASF-wide policy.

Releases in the CouchDB Universe

• couchdb-python 1.0 – issue fixes, improvements and more; download from PyPI | source
• Mango – a MongoDB inspired query interface; Open Sourced by Cloudant this week, with an intent to donate it to CouchDB; more details on it are here
• sofa – easy R interface to CouchDB

Opinions and other News in the CouchDB Universe

• CouchDB 2.0 counters MongoDB with improved scaling
• Apache CouchDB™ adds Clustering and Big Data Capabilities with 2.0 Developer Preview Release of its popular NoSQL Database
• Introduction to CouchDB (presentation slides)
• Putting the C back in CouchDB (presentation slides)
• Stressed about NoSQL? Relax with CouchDB (talk video)
• SQL and NoSQL databases in the cloud (presentation slides)

Use Cases, Questions and Answers

• Stack Overflow: Mixing IDs in CouchDB
• Stack Overflow: Getting alphabetical ordering from a pouchDB query
• Stack Overflow: Node.js Koa app and CouchDB in single container

No public answer yet:

• Stack Overflow: CouchDB – update function and parsing JSON file
• Stack Overflow: How to authenticate to a Couch Lucene proxy handler?
• Stack Overflow: Where should be stored attachment date
• Stack Overflow: rereduce and group=true in CouchDB
• Stack Overflow: CouchDB Module for Python on OS X 10.10.1
• Stack Overflow: connect with CouchDB´ using elasticsearch in Node.js

For more new questions and answers about CouchDB, see these search results.

Get involved!

If you want to get into working on CouchDB:

• We have an infinite number of open contributor positions on CouchDB. Submit a pull request and join the project!
• Can you help with Web Design, Development or UX for our Admin Console? No Erlang skills required! – Get in touch with us.
• Do you want to help moving the CouchDB docs translation forward? We’d love to have you in our L10n team! See our current status and languages we’d like to provide CouchDB docs in on this page. If you’d like to help, don’t hesitate to contact the L10n mailing list on l10n@couchdb.apache.org or ping Andy Wenk (awenkhh on IRC).

We’d be happy to have you on board!

Events

• November 25, Munich, Germany: Munich NoSQL: NoSQL on Mobile
• December 03, Portland, USA: Portland Erlang and Elixir User Group: Learning Erlang made me a better Engineer and Architect
• February 7, 2015: CouchDB Day 2015, Hamburg, Germany; ticket sale is now open

Job opportunities for people with CouchDB skills

• Senior Full-Stack JavaScript Developer, Berlin, Germany
• DevOps Engineer, Berlin, Germany
• System Administrator Linux, Germany

Time to relax!

• “It seems the mere mention of tools that support and encourage marginalised people to be a part of the tech industry incites a frothing flame war from the privileged.” – Tech Freedom vs. Feminism
• “Keep cake moist by just eating the entire thing in one sitting.” – … and 12 more amazing Food and Life Hacks you need to know right now
• “As a tech community, we are increasingly recognizing that diversity is fundamental to building a just, inclusive and beneficial industry, and that diverse teams perform better, are more innovative, and can build better products for a diverse world. In order to be successful with diverse recruiting, tech companies must invest in analysis and improvement at every stage of the hiring process.” – 25 Tips for Diverse Hiring
• Kitten Therapy: the Prescription for Stress
• Sloth Life

… and also in the news

• “The more awesome news I see coming out of CouchDB, the more convinced I am that I made the right bet 3 years ago. Way to go, all!” – @stickbyatlas, on Twitter
• “I’m loving that CouchDB has, as a community, specifically made (real) diversity an important focus of the project.” – @chipchilders, on Twitter
• Malware’s new target: your Password Manager’s Password