Releases in the CouchDB Universe

• icouch v0.5.1 – A CouchDB client for Elixir using ibrowse for HTTP transfer.

• node-red-contrib-cloudantplus-selector v0.1.2 – A Node-RED node to access Cloudant and couchdb databases, supports views, query and bulk operations.
  

• ol-couchdb-source v1.0.0 – OpenLayers source for fetching and displaying GeoJSON documents from a CouchDB server.
  

Opinions and other News in the CouchDB Universe

• [POST] Does NoSQL live up to the hype?, Alexandra Ash
• [POST] Apache CouchDB 1.x-2.1.2 CVE-2018-11769 Remote Code Execution, Apache

… and in the PouchDB Universe

• [TUTORIAL] PouchDB tutorial, ZetCode

CouchDB Use Cases, Questions and Answers

Stack Overflow:

• CouchDB can’t set up HTTPS

no public answer yet:

• PouchDB _revs_diff call getting cancelled

• Is it the right way to load balance couchdb with nginx?

• Integrating Nosql & Relational databases to be used for Data Warehouse

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

• August 21-23, Carlsbad (CA), US: JSConf US
• September 20-21, Hamburg, Germany, NEXT18 Conference
• September 24-27, Montréal, Canada: ApacheCon North America

Job opportunities for people with CouchDB skills

• CSI-IT – CouchDB Consultant with Supply chain Experience, Framingham, MA
• Integration Developer – LA Innovation Center, West Hollywood, CA

• Data Platform Engineer – Investor Data, New York, NY

• Senior Full-stack Engineer, Boston, MA

• Senior Front End Web Developer, No office location

… and also in the news

• Artificial intelligence tool ‘as good as experts’ at detecting eye problems
• The Mopeds Are Coming
• Wi-fi could be used to detect weapons and bombs

• Biometric Mirror: Reflecting the imperfections in AI

• More Bridges Will Collapse

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Pedro Narciso García Revington 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 2010 I chose CouchDB over other alternatives because of its replication feed. I’m still using CouchDB today.

Did you have a specific problem that CouchDB solved?

At some point, when you have an application that stores data in multiple databases (this is called polyglot persistence), you will need to sync data between them, i.e. you want to index your product catalog in ElasticSearch, or you want to feed a Hadoop job with some data from your database (you don’t want Hadoop hitting your db, right?). CouchDB replication feed really shines here! Something that otherwise can be really complicated and error prone becomes easy and reliable.

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?

If you need a document database CouchDB is your best choice. The API is really simple: just a REST service where you can CRUD JSON. It is also truly schemaless. On top of that you have the replication feed.

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

You can simplify a lot of your development with the replication feed.

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

I’m a big fan of polyglot persistence. I use other databases like Postgresql, Redis, Aerospike, and ElasticSearch. If your are using node.js you can use nano, a node.js CouchDB library, and txn to create all-or-nothing transactions. I also created my own transactions library.

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

I’m in the process of launching my own company: Shoptimiza. The idea is to bring powerful eCommerce tools to small- and mid-sized companies for a reasonable price. I expect to launch it in Q4 2018.

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