Hello and welcome to the last digest to be posted in 2025! This month Martin Junek shares their CouchDB user story and transports us to New Zealand, we find a new way to get Obsidian Sync working with CouchDB and get a peek at Open Telemetry’s CouchDB receiver updates.

3.5.1 has also been released this month — don’t miss the release notes! We also recommend taking a look at some more in-depth articles on QuickJS from the Neighbourhoodie and Cloudant teams. 

Clouseau 3.0.0 is here too: it’s the Lucene-based full-text engine you can use for search in CouchDB. 

Blog Articles

• Martin Junek is the latest in the community to share a user story — discover how eCatch New Zealand uses CouchDB and PouchDB to automate paperwork for fishing vessels as they drift off and online [Martin Junek on the CouchDB Blog]

• Balaraman describes why finding CouchDB and PouchDB is like discovering buried treasure for offline sync [Balaraman on Medium] 

• Karl Biron talks about MAD-CAT, the utility they authored to simulate the “-MEOW” attacks of the early 2020s that CouchDB was briefly susceptible to [Karl Biron on Trustwave] 

• Heliomar Peña shares their own recipe for a free, self-hosted Obsidian Sync using CouchDB, NordVPN Meshnet and Deno [Heliomar Peña on Medium] 

• Glynn Bird shares deep-dives into MapReduce “reducers” and bulk delete features that hold true for both CouchDB and Cloudant users [Glynn Bird on the Cloudant Blog]
  • A huge thanks to Glynn for reaching out and making sure these get shared widely! That’s why these articles, published earlier this year, are appearing in November’s digest.

Videos

• Chirag shows viewers how to backup and restore CouchDB [Chirag Tutorial on YouTube]

• Join Chirag to learn how to install and set up CouchDB on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS [Chirag Tutorial on YouTube]

• Follow along step-by-step with the Devnami channel to set up a CouchDB server on an Azure virtual machine [Devnami on YouTube] 

Tools

• Open Telemetry has shipped updates to the CouchDB receiver that supports CouchDB versions 2.3+ and 3.1+ [Open Telemetry on GitHub] 

Thanks for stopping by to catch up with all things CouchDB. Let us know in the comments if there’s any articles, videos or tools that we missed this month. See you here again in the new year!