Agreed about ad-hoc queries. It would have been nice to have them but couchdb-lucene[1] or even an integration with elasticsearch helps a lot if you need them.

Agreed about ad-hoc queries. It would have been nice to have them but couchdb-lucene[1] or even an integration with elasticsearch helps a lot if you need them. https://github.com/rnewson/couchdb-lucene https://github.com/rnewson/couchdb-lucene