CouchDB is a popular NoSQL database - specifically you could called it a "document database" - i.e. it is all about storing documents which consist of sets of fields in a JSON document against a key. There is no schema - a document can consist of any JSON structure - there is no requirement that the same fields be present in each document unlike rows in a RDBMS. Of course CouchDB has a lot of the other benefits of NoSQL databases - high scalability and ease of use.
Read more at http://blog.cloudbees.com/2011/07/nosql-couchdb-with-cloudbees-and.html
Saturday, July 16, 2011
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