It’s a wrap on the spookiest month of the year! 🎃 The CouchDB community has been getting up to quite a bit. The blog has a brand-new user story from Simon Lucy, we learn how a CouchDB is used in a social media research project and see it compared to popular database options.

Blog Articles

• Longtime CouchDB user Simon Lucy shares his story and shows us what features make knowledge management app zettel.io so reliable and robust [Simon Lucy on the CouchDB Blog]

• Sohail Saifi’s team show us how CouchDB and PouchDB enabled an offline-first application — and show off the business impact of their decision [Sohail Saifi on Medium]
  • This article was published in June

• Vinaykumar Chitukoori details how they configured and used CouchDB in a research project to understand the impact of social media discourse and the adoption of renewable energy [full paper available via Research Gate]

• Srujan compares seven databases in seven weeks: find out how CouchDB fares alongside other popular options [Srujan on Medium]

• Sayantan Roy’s guest contribution to AI Journal examines why edge, or local-first,  is the inevitable future of secure AI  [Sayantan Roy for the AI Journal]

• Everything you need to know to start sharding in CouchDB, managing conflicts within the Fauxton UI and using CouchDB attachments has been put together by the Neighbourhoodie team this month [Neighbourhoodie Blog]

Videos

• Stacey Haysler talks databases and diversity at FOSSY 2025 in Portland: if you want to find ways to contribute to a more inclusive CouchDB community through efforts at your team, company, event or project level, this is a must-watch [Software Freedom Conservancy on YouTube]

Tools

• The Community Health Toolkit collects technologies and resources for global health equity, and primarily use CouchDB as their database of choice for offline capability and more [Community Health Toolkit] 

• Don’t miss npm security updates on Nano, Official Apache CouchDB library for Node.js [Nano readme on npm]

Thanks for keeping up with CouchDB and the community that keeps it going. If we missed anything you think should be here or have a source to check next time, let us know in the comments. See you here again next month!

Welcome to the September 2025 CouchDB Digest! This one is short and sweet: we kick off with why “sync” is becoming the word of the moment, see how VLAN-controlled container access enhances CouchDB’s security and get introduced to a CouchDB rules engine.

Blog Articles

• Adam Wiggins shares why “sync” is becoming so popular ahead of SyncConf [Adam Wiggins on their own blog]

• Better understand user goals and frustration when it comes to offline-first media management in Anu Joy’s review of a make-shift solution with Proton [Anu Joy on Android Police]

• Rich Edmonds uses their CouchDB-hosted Obsidian to show how they make local apps even more secure by using dedicated VLAN to control container access [Rich Edmonds on XDA]

• Mark Headd has embarked on building a rules engine using CouchDB [Mark Headd on Civic Innovations and GitHub]
  • Check out the short thread in Slack for technical details

Videos

• If last month’s article about using CouchDB and the blockchain for hygiene traceability caught your attention, join this real-time setup tutorial that integrates CouchDB with Hyper-Ledger Fabric [Hardcore Backbencher on YouTube]

Misc

• In this Reddit post, u/socken23 troubleshoots — and solves — a Cloudflare and CouchDB issue in their self-hosted Obsidian sync [u/socken23 on r/CloudFlare]

Tools

• Benoit Chesneau shares Couchbeam, a CouchDB client library for Erlang applications [@benoitc on X and GitHub]

• Anarion’s virtual CouchDBs, running on Ubuntu24 and provisioned via Microsoft Azure, got some updates in the last month [Anarion Technologies on Microsoft Marketplace]

Thanks for keeping up with CouchDB; see you here again soon!