Validation functions give you control on writing, but there is no control on reading: everybody can read everything. That's more or less by design, couchdb woul

Validation functions give you control on writing, but there is no control on reading: everybody can read everything. That's more or less by design, couchdb would encourage you to create another db for another set of permissions. Couchbase's channels allow you to segregate docs with different read (or write) rights inside the same db.