"CouchDB Essentials"
"CouchDB Essentials" delivers a comprehensive and authoritative guide for architects, developers, and administrators seeking to harness the full power of CouchDB in modern, distributed systems. Beginning with a deep exploration of CouchDB’s architectural foundations—including its document-oriented, schema-less data model and robust implementation in Erlang—the book equips readers with a critical understanding of high availability, fault tolerance, and RESTful API integration. Detailed treatment of core mechanisms such as MVCC, append-only storage, and compaction provides the technical foundation essential for deploying resilient data solutions.
Moving beyond the fundamentals, the book immerses readers in advanced topics central to high-performance design and real-world usage. Readers will master sophisticated document modeling patterns, handle relationships and evolving schemas, and optimize for both query performance and transactional integrity. Extensive coverage of querying, indexing, and MapReduce views is complemented by essential insights into replication and conflict resolution—including strategies for multi-master synchronization, offline-first mobile support, filtered replication, and security considerations across data synchronization boundaries.
The final chapters present a hands-on perspective, encompassing cluster management, security hardening, and seamless integration with polyglot and cloud-native ecosystems. Through actionable patterns, troubleshooting methods, and diverse case studies drawn from high-throughput web applications, IoT use cases, and hybrid deployments, "CouchDB Essentials" provides both practical guidance and architectural best practices. This book is an indispensable resource for building scalable, fault-tolerant, and future-ready database solutions with CouchDB.
