Major Discussions

Official CouchDB docker image moved (see thread)
The official CouchDB Docker image has moved to GitHub.

Debian/Ubuntu 2.0 packages – beta test ready! (see thread)
Debian & Ubuntu CouchDB 2.0.0 packages are ready for BETA testing. These packages support full auto-configuration and upgrades from CouchDB 1.x.

Scheduling Replicator (see thread)
There’s a proposal to merge two pull requests to update replication by introducing  a status monitoring API and updated documentation.

Releases in the CouchDB Universe

• clusterpost-provider 1.3.0 – This is an Hapi plugin to Execute jobs in remote computing grids using a REST api.
• couchbeam_amuino 1.4.3-amuino.6 (Erlang) – Erlang CouchDB client + fixes
• couchdiff 0.3.0 – A command-line utility to calculate the difference between two Cloudant/CouchDB databases. It operates in one of three modes
• easton – GeoSpatial Indexer for CouchDB 2.0
• excel-couchdb-import 3.0.0 – imports Excel files (*.xls, *.xslx) into CouchDB/PouchDB documents, and transforms the sheets into JSON.
• hastings – GeoSpatial Search for CouchDB 2.0
• rest-on-couch 4.2.0 – Interface to CouchDB that allows the control of permissions on the documents.

PouchDB

• pouchdb-adapter-asyncstorage 6.2.0 – PouchDB adapter using AsyncStorage as its data store.
• pouchdb-react-native 6.2.0 – PouchDB Bundle for ReactNative

Opinions and other News in the CouchDB Universe

• [PODCAST] The New Builders Ep. 32: Predictable, Progressive, Performant – A SXSW Encore on Offline First Apps
• [POST] Announcing Kivik: the general-purpose CouchDB client API for Go and GopherJS, Jonathan Hall
• [RFC] Spiegel – Scalable replication and change listening for CouchDB
• [POST] How to build offline web applications with CouchDB and PouchDB, Gabriel Poca

… and in the PouchDB Universe

• [POST] Experimenting With The Mango .find() API In PouchDB 6.2.0, Ben Nadel
• [TUTORIAL] Monkey-Patching The Mango .find() Plugin To Use .allDocs() In PouchDB 6.2.0, Ben Nadel
• [POST] Understanding The Query Plan “Explained” By the Find Plugin In PouchDB 6.2.0, Ben Nadel

CouchDB Use Cases, Questions and Answers

Stack Overflow:

• How to create a TEXT index in CouchDB 2.0?
• The _replicator database is not scalable or my design needs tweaking
• CouchDB 2.0 extremely slow PUT over external network, fast locally

no public answer yet:

• How to verify a CouchDB 2.0 cluster setup
• How to shard data in CouchDB
• CouchDB/PouchDB selector for deleted docs
• How are CouchDB 2.0 nodes split across servers?
• Is it advisable to use MapReduce to ‘flatten’ irregular entities in CouchDB?

PouchDB Use Cases, Questions and Answers

Stack Overflow:

• PouchDB delete document upon successful replication to CouchDB

no public answer yet:

• Angular 4 PouchDB not updating service
• Filtered replication is not working as expected in PouchDB to CouchDB

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

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!

Events

• April 28-May 1, Berlin, Germany: Offline Camp
• May 6-7, Berlin, Germany: JSConf Europe
• May 16-18, Miami, Florida: ApacheCon and Apache Big Data
• May 18-19, North Charleston (SC), US: SyntaxCon
• May 24, Atlanta (GA), US: php[tek] 2017 – CouchDB: Scalable NoSQL for Modern Applications

Job opportunities for people with CouchDB skills

• Senior DevOps Engineer, Los Angeles (CA), US
• Integration Developer, Los Angeles, (CA), US
• Senior PHP Developer, Berlin, Germany
• Senior Backend Engineer with NodeJS, Atlanta (GA), US/Remote
• Senior Backend Software Engineer, San Francisco (CA), US
• Senior Software Engineer (.NET), St. Paul (MN), US
• Embedded Software Engineer for Next-Gen Agriculture Data Platform, South Salt Lake (UT), US
• Cloud Software Developer – Innovation Center, Los Angeles (CA), US

Time to relax!

• “I was enjoying a dried seaweed snack the other day and wondered how they harvested seaweed. The answer was even cooler than I expected, involving underwater farms and a giant vacuum.” – Incredibly relaxing video of a seaweed farmer
• “[When] participants listened to natural sounds, their brain activity tended toward an outward focus in attention, which correlates with a detached sense of relaxation. When listening to artificial sounds, their attention focus shifted inward, which more closely correlates with rumination and anxiety.” – Science Offers Yet Another (Totally Relaxing) Reason To Go Outside
• “Justin Trudeau is here to lull you to sleep, and wish you a happy Earth Day. The Canadian prime minister released an incredibly soothing video on Saturday wishing everyone an active, outdoorsy, socially responsible holiday.” – Dream of Justin Trudeau thanks to his video message this Earth Day
• “While your ancestors needed to look out for wolves and bears, that same instinct is just distracting when you are trying to work. Fidget toys simply calm your animal instincts, making it easier to concentrate.” – The ultimate fidgeters bundle helps you beat stress with two premium desk toys

… and also in the news

• Cassini Spacecraft Starts Weaving Between Saturn And Its Rings
• This 10-Minute Routine Will Increase Your Clarity And Creativity
• How Office Culture Can Crush Women’s Ambitions
• Two Koreas: History at a glance
• Let These Slow Subway GIFs Ease You Through Old NYC

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Releases

• PouchDB 6.2.0 is out now!
• The 2017 Annual Apache CouchDB User Survey will be open until midnight tomorrow, so get your responses in soon.

Releases in the CouchDB Universe

• couch-recliner 1.0.3 – Utility modules for interacting with CouchDB2.0/Cloudant using Nodejs. It retries requests and generally tries to keep things clean.
• davenport 2.1.0 – Davenport is a CouchDB client for simplifying common tasks like get, list, create, update and delete. It comes complete with full TypeScript definitions.
• easton – GeoSpatial Indexer for CouchDB 2.0
• node-couchdb-proxy 0.0.2 – ExpressJS CouchDB proxy middleware
• relax-server 2.0.1 – Relax Server is a minimum server that connects your clients to a CouchDB or any backend API.

PouchDB

• pouchdb-collate 6.2.0 – Collation functions for PouchDB map/reduce. Used by PouchDB map/reduce to maintain consistent CouchDB collation ordering.
• pouchdb-debug 6.2.0 – PouchDB.debug() API as a standalone module. Provides direct access to debug which can be used for debugging PouchDB’s internal operations.
• pouchdb-find 6.2.0 – Provides a simple, MongoDB-inspired query language that accomplishes the same thing as the map/reduce API, but with far less code.
• pouchdb-selector-core 6.2.0 – PouchDB find’s core selector as standalone module.
• sublevel-pouchdb 6.2.0 – Fork of level-sublevel with ony the subset of the API that PouchDB uses.

Opinions and other News in the CouchDB Universe

• [POST] Building a game catalog with CouchDB, Andrew Bell
• [RFC] CouchDB users: couchup, a new 1.x -> 2.x migration tool, needs your testing! 

CouchDB Use Cases, Questions and Answers

Stack Overflow:

• CouchDB 2 global_changes system table is getting insanely big

no public answer yet:

• How to model dropdown lists in CouchDB?

PouchDB Use Cases, Questions and Answers

Stack Overflow:

• Does PouchDB really keep all document revisions forever?
• Can PouchDB bulkDocs trigger the “change” event just once?
• Is creating multiple PouchDB databases on the same application considered bad design?

no public answer yet:

• PouchDB + CouchDB for offline companies application with rights management (IBM Domino replace)

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

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!

Events

• April 28-May 1, Berlin, Germany: Offline Camp
• May 6-7, Berlin, Germany: JSConf Europe
• May 16-18, Miami, Florida: ApacheCon and Apache Big Data
• May 18-19, North Charleston (SC), US: SyntaxCon
• May 24, Atlanta (GA), US: php[tek] 2017 – CouchDB: Scalable NoSQL for Modern Applications

Job opportunities for people with CouchDB skills

• Senior DevOps Engineer, Los Angeles (CA), US
• Python Backend Engineer for Next-Gen Agriculture Data Platform startup, Salt Lake City (UT), US
• Integration Developer, Los Angeles, (CA), US
• Senior PHP Developer, Berlin, Germany
• Senior Backend Engineer with NodeJS, Atlanta (GA), US/Remote
• Senior Backend Software Engineer, San Francisco (CA), US
• Senior Software Engineer, Baltimore (MD), US
• Senior Software Engineer (.NET), St. Paul (MN), US
• Cloud Software Developer – Innovation Center, Los Angeles (CA), US

Time to relax!

• “Sure, this ancient practice has been around for hundreds of years, but our modern society is just now figuring out what benefits it has for our health. And one of those benefits is to our immune system – the system in our bodies that protects us from developing dangerous diseases and illnesses. Yoga has an absolutely incredible effect on our immune system, basically giving us a huge boost in that department of our bodies.” – 6 Ways Yoga Improves Your Immune System
• “On the flip side, good posture has positive effects in almost every aspect of your life. Apart from looking good, posture can also affect your energy and stress levels during the day. In turn, it can improve your productivity, boost your confidence, and uplift your mood.” – Four Simple Habits That Improve Your Posture
• “A guru of relaxation, Bob Ross possesses the calm, singsong voice of an angel. His dulcet tone and meandering conversational style puts viewers at absolute ease as he gradually constructs a picaresque landscape. Bob Ross is not only the soothing cup of hot cocoa at the end of a stressful day, he’s the ideal seasonal antidote to that pesky old grinch known as insomnia.” – Netflix’s ‘Chill With Bob Ross’ Is The Most Relaxing Show You’ll Never Finish Watching
• “Now scientists at Stanford University may have uncovered for the first time why taking deep breaths can be so calming. The research, on a tiny group of neurons deep within the brains of mice, also underscores just how intricate and pervasive the links are within our body between breathing, thinking, behaving and feeling.” – Why Deep Breathing May Keep Us Calm
• “There are two types of people: those who can sleep through anything, and those of us who hate those people. My husband falls asleep before his head even touches the pillow. Sometimes when I look over at him sleeping peacefully, I want to smother him.” – The Magical Machine That’ll Help You Sleep Better than Ambien

… and also in the news

• The Heart of Whiteness: Ijeoma Oluo Interviews Rachel Dolezal, the White Woman Who Identifies as Black
• Astronomers to peer into a black hole for first time with new Event Horizon Telescope
• The South’s Most Famous Abortion Doctor Is Also a Devout Christian
• An Economy without Women? 5 Facts to Know
• The Brain-Heart Dialogue Shows How Racism Hijacks Perception

Submit news to the CouchDB Weekly

Reach out to us with your news suggestions by sending us an email or by contacting us on Twitter @CouchDB.