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couch hits a number of sweet spots. Documents can have attachments so you can build a complete application out of html,css, and javascript and have the entire a

couch hits a number of sweet spots. Documents can have attachments so you can build a complete application out of html,css, and javascript and have the entire app reside in a couch database. Coupled with P2P replication this make for some interesting possibilities. couch also inherits a lot from it's choice of implementation language, Erlang, and it's append-only storage design. A high level functional language such as Erlang makes for a small manageable code base. So if you want to extend or enhance it there's not as much to get your arms around as you would have in C++. On the other if you're a web programmer or could just otherwise care less about db internals, the JSON based RESTful API is all you need and there's a client already out there for just about every language I can think of except maybe Rebol. I've been poking at it for a couple of years now and one thing I have to say is that it is really truly rock solid. Moreover it has an active and supportive community and at least two companies building businesses around it, Cloudant and couch.io, both of which boast committers to the project.

oconnor0 16y ago
Are there any examples of applications being wholly hosted inside Couch?
- amock 16y ago
  See http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1515315 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1515315
- jchrisa 16y ago
  see http://couchapp.org http://couchapp.org
- bitdiddle 16y ago
  there's also one of my favorites, Swinger, http://c.ixxr.net/swinger/_design/swinger/index.html#/ http://c.ixxr.net/swinger/_design/swinger/index.html#/ which is like powerpoint except it's free and it works. It's great for pitching to folks
- necubi 16y ago
  The admin program (at http://localhost:5984/_utils http://localhost:5984/_utils if couch is installed and running) is such a program.
- rosenbergdm 16y ago
  While there are a _number_ of 'in-production' right now, the one I can personally speak to is at https://connamara.cloudant.com/cme/_design/app/index.html https://connamara.cloudant.com/cme/_design/app/index.html [disclaimer: this is my employer]. For what it's worth, I must say that I was very impressed today with how much 'better behaved' this release was in comparison to bother previous "major" releases (0.11 for example) _and_ recent trunk snapshots. In particular, they seem to have ironed out the nagging dependency issues couch had displayed on debian-based installations and are now reliably passing all of the unit / end-to-end tests. Great work.

oconnor0 16y ago

Are there any examples of applications being wholly hosted inside Couch?

amock 16y ago
See http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1515315 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1515315
jchrisa 16y ago
see http://couchapp.org http://couchapp.org
bitdiddle 16y ago
there's also one of my favorites, Swinger, http://c.ixxr.net/swinger/_design/swinger/index.html#/ http://c.ixxr.net/swinger/_design/swinger/index.html#/ which is like powerpoint except it's free and it works. It's great for pitching to folks
necubi 16y ago
The admin program (at http://localhost:5984/_utils http://localhost:5984/_utils if couch is installed and running) is such a program.
rosenbergdm 16y ago
While there are a _number_ of 'in-production' right now, the one I can personally speak to is at https://connamara.cloudant.com/cme/_design/app/index.html https://connamara.cloudant.com/cme/_design/app/index.html [disclaimer: this is my employer]. For what it's worth, I must say that I was very impressed today with how much 'better behaved' this release was in comparison to bother previous "major" releases (0.11 for example) _and_ recent trunk snapshots. In particular, they seem to have ironed out the nagging dependency issues couch had displayed on debian-based installations and are now reliably passing all of the unit / end-to-end tests. Great work.