CouchDB – short review During one of our last projects we had a small 2-year adventure with Apache CouchDB NoSQL database. Here, I’m going to briefly present its strong points as well as drawbacks.Background Why using yet another NoSQL? CouchDB was chosen based on requirements and assumptions in the project. Especially, easy multi-master replication seemed to be attractive in the context of the project, which was supposed to be a distributed document database without any relations and rather un...

This post will be a little note with steps needed to setup a working CouchDb instance on windows machine.NoSql RDBSM rules the world, it is still a “standard” in the industry. My first Database was used inside a simple rss client written in C. This was the weird world of C programming with weak documentation and Segmentation fault errors everywhere. Now, I am mostly using MSSQL with ORM support ( NHibernate ), but there is another world of databases on the horizon, NoSql movement. There have been a lot...