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# CouchDB

**repo:** [quangv/awesome-couchdb](https://github.com/quangv/awesome-couchdb)  
**category:** [[databases|Databases]]
**related:** [[javascript|Javascript]]

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# Awesome CouchDB [](http://makeapullrequest.com)

> A curated meta resources & best practices list for CouchDB.

**[CouchDB](http://couchdb.apache.org/)** is a document-oriented NoSQL database that syncs.

Pull-Requests are welcomed.

## Contents
- [News & Blog Posts](#news--blog-posts)
- [Patterns & Best Practices](#patterns--best-practices)
  - [Map/Reduce](#mapreduce)
  - [Joins](#joins)
  - [Document Versioning](#document-versioning)
- [Blogs](#blogs)
- [Docs](#docs)
- [Books](#books)
- [Videos](#videos)
- [Libraries](#libraries)
- [Community](#community)
  - [Mailing List](#mailing-list)
  - [Companies](#companies)
    - [Hosting](#hosting)
  - [Related Projects](#related-projects)
- [Misc/Technical](#misctechnical)
  - [Attachments](#attachments)
  - [Backups](#backups)
  - [CouchApps](#couchapps)
  - [Scaling](#scaling)
- [Resource Lists](#resource-lists)
- [License](#license)

## News & Blog Posts

- [MiniCouchDB in Rust](https://www.garrensmith.com/blogs/mini-couch-hack-week)
- [The Road to CouchDB 3.0: Prepare for 4.0](https://blog.couchdb.org/2020/02/26/the-road-to-couchdb-3-0-prepare-for-4-0/) _(02-26-2020)_

## Patterns & Best Practices

- [Best Practices](http://ehealthafrica.[github](/@harrisonqian/awesome/wiki/development-environment/github).io/couchdb-best-practices/) - Best Practices, eHealth Africa.
- [Pagination strategies with PouchDB ](https://pouchdb.com/2014/04/14/pagination-strategies-with-pouchdb.html)
- [12 pro [tips](/@harrisonqian/awesome/wiki/programming-languages/tips) for better code with PouchDB](https://pouchdb.com/2014/06/17/12-pro-tips-for-better-code-with-pouchdb.html)
- [Linux tuning for better CouchDB performance](https://github.com/assafmo/couchdb-[linux](/@harrisonqian/awesome/wiki/platforms/linux)-performance)

### Map/Reduce

- [PouchDB - Secondary Indexes](https://pouchdb.com/2014/05/01/secondary-indexes-have-landed-in-pouchdb.html)
- [Cloudant - MapReduce Primer](https://cloudant.com/blog/mapreduce-from-the-basics-to-the-actually-useful/#.WIDBfRsrKUl) - Great intro on reduce, group, group_level.
- [Using View Collation](http://docs.couchdb.org/en/2.0.0/couchapp/views/joins.html#using-view-collation) - Index mapping (emits) for data joins.
- [Views Collation](http://docs.couchdb.org/en/2.0.0/couchapp/views/collation.html) - More documentation on "View Collation".
- [Cloudant - MapReduce and the Secondary Index (Video)](https://developer.ibm.com/clouddataservices/docs/cloudant/get-started/mapreduce-and-the-secondary-index/) - Great videos here on mapReduce, secondary indexes, and complex keys.
- [Cloudant - Design Documents](https://docs.cloudant.com/design_documents.html) - Cloudant's documentation is also great resource for [learning](/@harrisonqian/awesome/wiki/programming-languages/learning) concepts of CouchDB.
- [Cloudant - Design Document Management](https://docs.cloudant.com/design_document_management.html) - How to manage design doc changes in production.

### Joins

- [Joins with Views](http://docs.couchdb.org/en/2.0.0/couchapp/views/joins.html#joins-with-views) - Must read for understanding approach on doing efficient joins for CouchDB/PouchDB.
- [Grouping related documents together in Cloudant](https://docs.cloudant.com/transactions.html) - An approach that leverages CouchDB high availability nature.

### Document Versioning

- [Document Revisions (from wiki)](https://wiki.apache.org/couchdb/Document_revisions?action=show&redirect=DocumentRevisions)
- [Simple Document Versioning](http://web.archive.org/web/20100701165612/http://blog.couch.io/post/632718824/simple-document-versioning-with-couchdb)

## Blogs

- [Official Blog](https://blog.couchdb.org/)

## Docs

- [Official Docs](http://docs.couchdb.org/)
- [FAQ (old wiki)](https://wiki.apache.org/couchdb/Frequently_asked_questions) - Seems to have more faqs than the [new wiki](https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/COUCHDB/Frequently+Asked+Questions).

## Books

- [The Definitive Guide](http://guide.couchdb.org/) - CouchDB's _"Dog"_ Book.
- [List of books on the Wiki](https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/COUCHDB/Books)

## Videos

- [10 Common Misconceptions](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKQ9kXKoHS810) - More videos from this [conference](http://conf.couchdb.org/).
- [The NoSQL Tapes](http://nosqltapes.com) - CouchDB is discussed on [Volume 5 - CouchDB](http://nosqltapes.com/video/hoffman-and-kocoloski-on-cloudant-and-couchdb), [Volume 8 - MapReduce](http://nosqltapes.com/video/understanding-mapreduce-with-mike-miller).
- [Scaling Out with BigCouch](http://www.oreilly.com/pub/e/1760) - O'Reilly video on scaling out with BigCouch.
- [IBM - The New Builders Webinar Series](https://event.on24.com/eventRegistration/EventLobbyServlet?target=reg20.jsp&partnerref=cdc&eventid=1240121&sessionid=1&key=9E23B44802902EAD0BB2603F0434742E&regTag=35370&sourcepage=register)

## Libraries

- [Jaki](https://github.com/pandeiro/jaki) - A simple [ClojureScript](/@harrisonqian/awesome/wiki/programming-languages/clojurescript) CouchDB client

## Community

- [IRC](http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=couchdb) - `irc://irc.freenode.net/couchdb`
- [Apache CouchDB Conf](http://conf.couchdb.org/) - Lots of video links.
- [Bylaws](http://couchdb.apache.org/bylaws.html), [Minutes](https://whimsy.apache.org/board/minutes/CouchDB.html)

### Mailing List

> -dev is where developers of couchdb chat, -user is where users of couchdb chat
> and there's some crosstalk ofc
> -dev is appropriate if you're talking about changes to couchdb itself ("developer" doesn't mean you have to have a commit bit or anything) -rnewson

- [Mailing Lists](https://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/#couchdb)
- [Mailing Lists Description](http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/couchdb/site/htdocs/community/lists.html?p=900000)
- [Grokbase](http://grokbase.com/s/couchdb) - Mailing lists in a [Stack Overflow](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/couchdb)-like interface.

[:star2:**The** ***Amazing*** **CouchDB Committers** *and* **Project Managers** :heart_eyes_cat:](http://people.apache.org/committers-by-project.html#couchdb) 

### Companies

- [eHealth Africa](https://github.com/eHealthAfrica) - Big user of CouchDB, check out their [best practices](https://github.com/eHealthAfrica/couchdb-best-practices).

#### Hosting

- [Cloudant](https://cloudant.com/) - Distributed [database](/@harrisonqian/awesome/wiki/databases/database) as a service (DBaaS).
- [Fly.io](https://fly.io) use this [Guide](https://www.canrau.com/en/fly-couchdb) to host
- [Bitnami Launchpad for [Google Cloud](/@harrisonqian/awesome/wiki/platforms/google-cloud) Platform](https://bitnami.com/stack/couchdb/cloud/google) - Host CouchDB on [Google Cloud](/@harrisonqian/awesome/wiki/platforms/google-cloud) Platform.

### Related Projects

- [PouchDB](https://pouchdb.com/) - A pocket-sized [database](/@harrisonqian/awesome/wiki/databases/database).
- [FoundationDB](https://www.foundationdb.org/) - CouchDB 4.0 will utilize FoundationDB.
- [Hoodie](http://hood.ie/) - A backend for Offline First applications.
- [Couchbase](https://www.couchbase.com/) - NoSQL [database](/@harrisonqian/awesome/wiki/databases/database).
  - [Migrating from Apache CouchDB](https://docs.couchbase.com/server/current/install/migrate-couchdb.html) - Comparison of CouchDB and CouchBase
- [RxDB](https://rxdb.info/) - NoSQL-[database](/@harrisonqian/awesome/wiki/databases/database) for [JavaScript](/@harrisonqian/awesome/wiki/programming-languages/javascript) Applications. RxDB provides modules for realtime replication with any CouchDB compliant endpoint and also with custom [GraphQL](/@harrisonqian/awesome/wiki/miscellaneous/graphql) endpoints.

## Misc/Technical

- [Dynamo and CouchDB Clusters](https://web.archive.org/web/20160311144130/https://cloudant.com/blog/dynamo-and-couchdb-clusters/#.WIEp4xsrKUk) - Article about scaling CouchDB, using clusters.
- [Google’s paper on Sawzall](http://research.google.com/archive/sawzall.html) - Exotic Reductions Examples.
- [What Every Developer Should Know About CouchDB](http://www.dimagi.com/blog/what-every-developer-should-know-about-couchdb/) - Article about lessons learned.
- [CouchDB Maximum [Database](/@harrisonqian/awesome/wiki/databases/database) Size](http://www.nosql.se/2011/09/couchdb-maximum-database-size/)
- [NOSQL Patterns](http://horicky.blogspot.com/2009/11/nosql-patterns.html)
- [Persistent Trees in git, [Clojure](/@harrisonqian/awesome/wiki/programming-languages/clojure) and CouchDB](https://eclipsesource.com/blogs/2009/12/13/persistent-trees-in-git-clojure-and-couchdb-data-structure-convergence/)
- [CouchDB - [JSON](/@harrisonqian/awesome/wiki/miscellaneous/json) and B-trees and [REST](/@harrisonqian/awesome/wiki/miscellaneous/rest), oh my!](https://pozorvlak.livejournal.com/176385.html)

### Attachments

- [PouchDB - Attachments are overrated](https://pouchdb.com/2014/06/17/12-pro-[tips](/@harrisonqian/awesome/wiki/programming-languages/tips)-for-better-code-with-pouchdb.html) - _"Update: since this post was written, the stability and performance of attachments in PouchDB has greatly improved. ..."_
- [Cloudant - Attachments Performance Considerations](https://docs.cloudant.com/attachments.html#performance-considerations)
- [Are attachments duplicated for each revision?](http://grokbase.com/t/couchdb/user/14a1phbzrb/are-attachments-duplicated-for-each-revision-as-well) - Mailing list discussion about attachments across revisions.

### Backups

- [Simple CouchDB and Cloudant Backup](https://developer.ibm.com/clouddataservices/2016/03/22/simple-couchdb-and-cloudant-backup/) - Article on IBM about backups.
- [Cloudant Backup Guide](https://docs.cloudant.com/backup-guide.html) - Cloudant docs on backups.

### CouchApps

- [List of CouchApps](https://couchapp.readthedocs.io/en/latest/user/list-of-couchapps.html)
- [Ddoc Lab](http://ddoc.me/) - Create couchapps and CouchDB design docs right in your browser.

### Scaling

- [Bitnami CouchDB](https://bitnami.com/stack/couchdb) - Bitnami makes it easy to run CouchDB in the cloud.

## Resource Lists

- [Official CouchDB Wiki](https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/COUCHDB/Apache+CouchDB+Wiki)
- [Official CouchDB Wiki (old)](https://wiki.apache.org/couchdb/) - Some things aren't on new wiki yet.
- [Cloudant Official Guides](https://docs.cloudant.com/guides.html) - Applicable to CouchDB.
- [List of CouchDB Clients](https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/COUCHDB/CouchDB+clients)
- [List of CouchDB Useful Utilities](https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/COUCHDB/Useful+utilities)
- [Old Wiki's Related Projects List](https://wiki.apache.org/couchdb/Related_Projects)

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