Blog Posts

• CouchDB Board Report (May 2014)

Weekly CouchDB meeting – summary

• BigCouch merge: significant process has been made. We want to encourage everyone to check out the COUCHDB-1843 branch and help with testing. Info: to run the bigcouch from merge branch: clone couchdb.git, checkout 1843-feature-bigcouch, ./configure && make && dev/run. Please report any errors you find during testing on dev@ Mailing list or on IRC #couchdb-dev.
• 1.6.0 release: 1.6.0 rc5 is still open vor testing and voting. There are now Windows binaries against Erlang 17.0, – Windows users out there, feel free to test them. On the issues with Erlang 17.0, please also see this post on what it takes to use it in production. There’ll be a follow-up item on this which will be sent to the mailing list this week.
• CouchDB Meetups: there have been two CouchDB Meetups in Hamburg and Berlin, Germany, in the last week, and both were amazing. The recap for Hamburg can be found here.

Major Discussions

Discussion: Project by-laws (ongoing discussion; see thread)

The by-laws have been discussed and updated according to the community’s comments. They can be found here, your feedback is very welcome.

Release Apache CouchDB 1.6.0 rc5 (see thread)

The testing and voting for all systems is still in progress.

Releases in the CouchDB Universe

• couch-daemon – helps you write CouchDB workers efficiently that can be implemented and managed by CouchDB as os_daemons; with a Highland streaming interface
• couchdb2s3 (0.3.0) – export CouchDB databases to line-oriented json files on s3
• sails-couchdb-orm (0.9.0) – CouchDB adapter for Sails.js and Waterline ORM
• dimensionist – CouchDB daemon to extract dimensions from image attachments

Opinions

• On the Viability of Erlang Releases and CouchDB
• An ode to 17 databases in 33 minutes (talk)
• Relaxing with CouchDB (talk, download)
• On May 13, the first CouchDB Meetup in Hamburg took place. You’ll find the recap here, and there’s also a G+ Community – the CouchDB people in Hamburg would love to welcome you there or at their next meetup!

Use Cases, Questions and Answers

• Stack Overflow: How to have ember-couchdb-kit pull data from a view
• Stack Overflow: WHERE OR Query – CouchDB
• Stack Overflow: How to connect pinoccio to Apache CouchDB
• Stack Overflow: CouchDB, all_docs and filter design documents with endkey
• Stack Overflow: How to change permissions on a CouchDB database with Python
• Stack Overflow: Does updating a design document in CouchDB cause rebuilding of views?
• Stack Overflow: How to start CouchDB from command line
• Stack Overflow: Modify response from CouchDB POST/GET _session
• Stack Overflow: Python, CouchDB: how to Update already existing document by ID
• Stack Overflow: AngularJS/PouchDB app stops syncing to CouchDB when cache.manifest added
• Stack Overflow: How to call CouchDB view from Java code?
• Stack Overflow: Error while installing couch DB version 1.5.1
• Stack Overflow: CouchDB Install Errors Involving http.c on CentOS
• Stack Overflow: CouchDB’s emit and mutable keys
• Stack Overflow: Changing CouchDB URL in Ember
• Stack Overflow: CouchDb ‘init terminating in do_boot’ error in Ubuntu 14.04
• Stack Overflow: Access external web server couchdb
• Stack Overflow: CouchDB Map/Reduce function to get average based on group=true and then get the max average of all grouped values
• New CouchDB Waterline Adapater – Would appreciate help testing! (no public reactions yet)

Get involved!

If you want to get into working on CouchDB:

• Help us testing Apache CouchDB 1.6.0 rc5! You’ll find all important information on release artefacts and test procedure here.
• Here’s a list of beginner tickets around our currently ongoing Fauxton-implementation. If you have any questions or need help, don’t hesitate to contact us in the couchdb-dev IRC room (#couchdb-dev) – Garren (garren) and Sue (deathbear) are happy to help.

We’d be happy to have you!

Job opportunities for people with CouchDB skills

• Web Application Developer, Conroe, Texas, USA
• Speech Scientist – Engineer, Boston, MA, USA
• Senior Software Engineer Big Data, London, UK / Kaiserslautern, Germany
• Systems Administrator, New York, NY, USA
• Senior Engineer – Search Recommendations, Boston, MA, USA

… and also in the news

• Computers are a Sadness, I am the Cure – a talk
• CouchDB Chess (also on GitHub)

Posted on behalf of Lena Reinhard.

Weekly CouchDB meeting – summary

• 1.6.0 release: 1.6.0-rc.5 is out for testing, so for all systems go. 1.6.x CI is all green, a formal vote will be coming this week
• rcouch merge status: testing up to now showed it's functional, it will be suggested for integration branch merge
• BigCouch merge status: a massive progress has been made this week. Soon branches will be rewritten to clean up the history, afterwards the community will be asked for help with testing.
• Fauxton: agreement that Fauxton replaces Futon in CouchDB 2.0 (post merge) and that resolution of COUCHDB-1954 prior to that is critical. There'll be a thread on dev@ mailing list about this and release preparation.
• Bylaws, Code of Conduct, Diversity Statement: everyone in the community is still invited to read the by-laws draft and join the discussion on dev@ mailing list (see thread); an initial Code of Conduct and Diversity draft will be posted next week
• Project release artefacts: the current state of what the project release artefacts are will be documented and publicized

Major Discussions

Discussion: Project by-laws (ongoing discussion; see thread)

The first draft of the by-laws has been modified and is still being discussed. It can be found here, your comments are very welcome.

How to get results in descending order by date and without ID field (see thread)

The docs for result orders can be found here. To remove the ID field, users can use a list function.

Release Apache CouchDB 1.6.0 rc5 (ongoing testing and discussion; see thread)

The testing for all systems is still in progress. If you want to test, please follow this test procedure. The changes since last vote round can be found here.

Releases in the CouchDB Universe

• PouchDB 2.2.0 – including persistent mapreduce, eventemitter api, replication works for huge datasets
• highland-couchr 1.0.0 – streaming style API to CouchDB, using couchr under the hood
• massage-couch 0.1.0 – massage CouchDB documents with an OS daemon worker.

Opinions

• CouchDB – partioned dates and group levels to control aggregation granularity
• The Long Tail of Open Source (and You)
• Dealing with actor runtime environments on hierarchical shared memory multi-core platforms – Thesis for obtaining the Doctorate Degree in Sciences

Use Cases, Questions and Answers

• Stack Overflow: How to structure class for CouchDB HTTP api?
• Stack Overflow: Get selected latest 10 docs from CouchDB order[ed] by timestamp
• Stack Overflow: with Python, how can I save a json dumps as a CouchDB document?
• Stack Overflow: CouchDB reduce function — only return sum(value) that meets certain conditions
• Stack Overflow: CouchDB crashes after few minutes running
• Stack Overflow: How can I replay a header which is sent in request to CouchDB?
• Stack Overflow: AngularJS + NodeJS + CouchDB (no public answer yet)
• Stack Overflow: CouchDB Map function to get the data in between two dates

Get involved!

If you want to get into working on CouchDB:

• Help us testing Apache CouchDB 1.6.0 rc5! You'll find all important information on release artefacts and test procedure here.
• Here's a list of beginner tickets around our currently ongoing Fauxton-implementation. If you have any questions or need help, don't hesitate to contact us in the couchdb-dev IRC room (#couchdb-dev) – Garren (garren) and Sue (deathbear) are happy to help.

We'd be happy to have you!

Events

• May 13, Hamburg, Germany: the first CouchDB User Group meeting in Hamburg
• May 13, New York, USA: Database Superstars Panel, Future of NoSQL & NewSQL: CouchDB, NuoDB, OracleNoSQL

Job opportunities for people with CouchDB skills

• DevOps Engineer, New York, USA
• Work for any of JS, UI/UX, Node, CouchDB experience (see tweet), can work remote

… and also in the news

• The Meaning of Life – a talk (watch this!)

Posted on behalf of Lena Reinhard.