Major Discussions

CouchDB Filtered Replication – Group of Doc’s Don’t appear to be batched (see thread)

A user has issues with a filter doing a simple check and making syncing from a couch instance to another much slower. The questions: “Does CouchDB filter replication not group docs and send 1 doc in each _bulk_docs call to the target host? Is there some configuration which would allow the filter replication to group docs to speed up replication?”

It is discussed if the replicator is faster than the filter function in this case, and if to request ‘filtered _changes feed’ to check the throughput speed.

A possible explanation states that the “replicator will dynamically choose ‘_bulk_docs’ batch sizes based on the number of documents that are ready to be transmitted to the source” and that it is currently “possible to set an upper bound on the size”, but not a lower. Though other referred issues imply that batch size doesn’t seem to be configurable.

Releases in the CouchDB Universe

• dDoc Lab 1.8 – A new service, CouchApp and design doc editor/builder, in fact specialised IDE, to create CouchApps and CouchDB design docs right in your browser – both online and offline, thanks to PouchDB!
• beanbag 4.4.0 – Generic CouchDB driver built upon the teepee module
• abacus-dbserver 0.0.1 – Mini CouchDB-compatible server built using PouchDB and Express
• ember-couch 0.0.2 – An Ember.js adapter for Apache CouchDB
• couchdb-changes-response 0.1.0 – Mimic CouchDB _changes response in a streaming fashion
• hapi-couchdb-store 1.0.1 – CouchDB REST and front-end API
• inventaire-authors-birthday – a twitter bot greeting authors of the world on their birthday using Wikidata and CouchDB 🙂
• couch-pubsub 1.3.0 – PubSub via CouchDB

Releases in the PouchDB Universe

• PouchDB 4.0.0 – is out!! “And PouchDB 4.0.0 is released, deprecated features removed, bunch of new features and bug fixes” (@daleharvey, via Twitter)
• spawn-pouchdb-server 2.1.0 – Configurable per-app pouchdb-server as a drop-in replacement for CouchDB. Great for local development and isolated databases, and supports all LevelUp storage backends, like In-memory, Postgres or MongoDB
• pouchdb-hoodie-store 1.0.0 – PouchDB with Hoodie’s Store API (work in progress)

Opinions and other News in the CouchDB Universe

• CouchDB 2.0 received cross-site request forgery (CSRF) protection
• “CouchDB and PouchDB – The Dynamic Duo” is currently featured on the cover of the PHP Magazine. (@snnd via Twitter)
• [Webcast] SQL to NoSQL: Top 6 Questions Before Making the Move

… and in the PouchDB Universe

• [Blog] PouchDB 4.0.0 – Ballast Overboard
• [Issue] Help is very welcome with “Implement committed_update_seq ala CouchDB #4116”

Use Cases, Questions and Answers for CouchDB

• Use Case: [Webcast] IBM Bluemix Twitter Analytics with Node.js, Node-RED, CouchDB, Cloudant, DB2 BLU, dashDB and R

Stack Overflow:

• CouchDB for widely scattered sites
• How to use notification for Ionic app?
• Connecting to Android studio with a NoSQL database like CouchDB

no public answer yet (Stack Overflow):

• Querying CouchDB view with 2 fields, with each field and its own values to compare. AND: Query with SQL
• Is it safe to create a user account using the id_token provided by google’s sign in?
• CouchDB get changes only from client type “mobile”

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

Use Cases, Questions and Answers for PouchDB

• Use Case: Help Hoodie with the migration to PouchDB

Stack Overflow:

• PouchDB – How Auto-Compaction affects 2 way replication
• Use PouchDB to store images

For more new questions and answers about PouchDB, 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!
• Do you want to help us with the work on the new CouchDB website? Get in touch on our new website mailing list and join the website team! – www@couchdb.apache.org
• The CouchDB advocate marketing programme is just getting started. Join us in CouchDB’s Advocate Hub!
• CouchDB has a new wiki. Help us move content from the old to the new one!
• 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 welcome you on board!

New Committer

• Bastian Krol (IRC nick: basti1302, Twitter: @bastiankrol) has been elected as a CouchDB committer. Welcome to CouchDB, Bastian!

Events

• August 8, Belgrade, Serbia: JS Belgrade Meetup #9 – Stephan Bönnemann
• August 18, Fort Wayne (IN), US: Adventures In Ember and CouchDB
• September 11, London, UK: Lead Developer Conference
• October 6-8, Richland (WA), US: &yetConf

Job opportunities for people with CouchDB skills

• Javascript Developer eHealth Systems Africa, Kano, Nigeria (allows remote, Abuja or Lagos preferred)
• Dev. Node.js/CouchDB, Paris, France
• DevOps-Engineer, Berlin, Germany
• Database Administrator, San Diego (CA), US

Time to relax!

• “I’ve had an engineer on salary at a bootcamp message me to explicitly “be friends with benefits” while I was in the interview process at the school he worked for. I would like to add that both men responsible for these unfavorable experiences are not bad people. They are both socially-accepted, “smart” and “normal” guys. This illustrates one of the industry’s deep underlying issues.” – You May Have Seen My Face on BART
• “‘Segment the product by quality, value and personal image—ideas that all ended up leading to the thriving coffee market of today. Just when we thought we were out, they sucked us back in. (Meanwhile, the parallel rise of coffee and decline of tobacco could be a sociology thesis, in and of itself.)’ That little insight is part of a three-part series on the anthropology of coffee on the blog Anthropology in Practice.” – The anthropology of coffee
• “The future belongs to all of us—or, ultimately, none of us—why does it matter if the vast majority of futurists are white men? It matters for the same reasons diversity drives market growth: because when only one type of person is engaged in asking key questions about a specialty—envisioning the future or otherwise—they miss entire frameworks for identifying and solving problems.” – Why Aren’t There More Women Futurists?
• “‘It is important to recreate that ‘water cooler’ conversation that naturally occurs in a traditional office,’ […] Staying focused on work is important, but taking a moment to ask your colleagues about their weekends, hobbies, families and other personal activities strengthens those bonds and leads to a higher-functioning team.” – 5 ways to make working remotely actually work

… and also in the news

• “Do any other Portland tech people pronounce CouchDB “kooch DB” because of Couch St? ;)” (@amberhimesmatz, via Twitter)
• See how the above article resulted in #ilooklikeanengineer and ilooklikeanengineer.net
• Learn to Fly – Foo Fighters Rockin1000 | Official Video