February 1, 2008

CouchDB — lazy database design taken to excess?

I’ve run into a research/alpha/whatever project called CouchDB a couple of times now. It’s yet another “Who needs relational databases? Who needs schemas?” kind of idea. Rather, CouchDB is for taking random documents and banging them into databases, then calculating views on the fly as needed. It’s REST-friendly. Lucene and a web server are built in.

Damien Katz seems to be the driving force behind CouchDB, and his discussion of document-oriented development seems to be a good starting point. Read more

Categories: CouchDB, Data models and architecture, Database diversity, Structured documents, Theory and architecture 4 Comments 

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