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▐ 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.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 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-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 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 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 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 Platform (https://bitnami.com/stack/couchdb/cloud/google) - Host CouchDB on Google Cloud Platform.


Related Projects

- PouchDB (https://pouchdb.com/) - A pocket-sized 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.
  - 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 for JavaScript Applications. RxDB provides modules for realtime replication with any CouchDB compliant endpoint and also with custom 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 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 and CouchDB (https://eclipsesource.com/blogs/2009/12/13/persistent-trees-in-git-clojure-and-couchdb-data-structure-convergence/)
- CouchDB - JSON and B-trees and REST, oh my! (https://pozorvlak.livejournal.com/176385.html)

Attachments

- PouchDB - Attachments are overrated (https://pouchdb.com/2014/06/17/12-pro-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)

License
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couchdb Github: https://github.com/quangv/awesome-couchdb