Releases in the CouchDB Universe

• couchster v1.2.0 – A tool to build comprehensive document validation functions for Apache CouchDB.
• Store-CouchDB v4.3 – A simple CouchDB driver.
• CouchDB access manager v0.1 – Access manager for couchdb (2.x) mapping oAuth roles to couchDB user management.
• node-red-contrib-cloudantplus-selector 0.1.4 – A Node-RED node to access Cloudant and couchdb databases, supports views, query and bulk operations.

Opinions and other News in the CouchDB Universe

• [POST] Guide to 24 PHP Frameworks [Part 3], Nico Anastasio

CouchDB Use Cases, Questions and Answers

Stack Overflow:

• CouchDB filter function and continuous feed

no public answer yet:

• Is it possible to sync a subset of documents by specific rule?
• Storing data directly into CouchDB while using composer BNA on the Network
• which is faster: views or allDocs with Array.filter?

• CouchDB reduce objects to then calculate

PouchDB Use Cases, Questions and Answers

Stack Overflow:

• How to Check if the db exists in couchdb or not?
• pouchdb replication not completing, just stuck with pending docs
• Preload / Pre-populate PouchDB in React Native Application

no public answer yet:

• How to prevent user from inserting a Date that is in a range of dates?

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

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• 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

• September 20-21, Hamburg, Germany, NEXT18 Conference
• September 24-27, Montréal, Canada: ApacheCon North America

Job opportunities for people with CouchDB skills

• Engineering Manager – Platform Cloud, New York, NY
• Data Platform Engineer – Investor Data, New York, NY
• Web Developer, Baltimore, MD
• Senior Front End Web Developer, No office location
• Principal Software Development Engineer, Bowie, MD
• Software Developer, Team Lead, Berlin, Germany

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Radu Stanciu talked to us about how he first discovered CouchDB and what his experience has been employing it in applications.

How did you hear about CouchDB, and why did you choose to use it?

Back in 2011 I was looking for an easy and fast solution to serve static files over HTTP. I then discovered the easy to use HTTP API for data access and I immediately fell in love with it.

Did you have a specific problem that CouchDB solved?

I use CouchDB as an application platform, it serves the UI code which then connect to the REST endpoints to fetch or save data. The big problem I had that CouchDB solved was having access to 100m+ records in a timely fashion. The persisted indexes and the MapReduce implementation nicely achieves that.

For the folks who are unsure of how they could use CouchDB–because there are a lot of databases out there—could you explain the use case?

I use it because it offers so much functionality with a minimal stack. Full HTTP access is a crucial feature I use that allows interacting with the database over many systems and networks. The replication system is just awesome.

What would you say is the top benefit of using CouchDB?

It’s highly reliable, while also delivering great performance.

What tools are you using in addition for your infrastructure? Have you discovered anything that pairs well with CouchDB?

I run the couchapp as a desktop application interface with the embedded Chromium engine.

What are your future plans with your project? Any cool plans or developments you want to promote?

For every embedded device project I tinker with (I love the Raspberry PI), CouchDB is the base of the stack to handle data and network.

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