Welcome to Apache CouchDB Project Wiki.

Apache CouchDB is a distributed, fault-tolerant and schema-free document-oriented database accessible via a RESTful HTTP/JSON API. Among other features, it provides robust, incremental replication with bi-directional conflict detection and resolution, and is queryable and indexable using a table-oriented view engine with JavaScript acting as the default view definition language.

For more information see:

• Introduction

• Technical Overview

• README

• NEWS

Using CouchDB

• Installation

• Basics: Getting started with CouchDB with different programming languages

• Reference: CouchDB API Reference

• How-To_Guides: Task-focused How-To Guides

• Using_Views: Learn all about CouchDB views

• EntityRelationship: How to model relations between your objects in CouchDB

When things go wrong

• Frequently_asked_questions

• Breaking_changes

• Error_messages

• Troubleshooting

Community

• Mailing lists - The place for CouchDB community support and where the developers discuss and make decisions about the future of CouchDB.

• #couchdb - CouchDB IRC channel on freenode for community support and friendly chat. Note: IRC discussions tend to exclude large parts of the community. Therefore CouchDB core technical discussions and decisions must take place on the mailing lists, not IRC. They don't count otherwise.

• People_on_the_Couch

• CouchDB_in_the_wild

• Presentations

• Catch up´s :Planet, Subreddit, Twitter

Get involved

• Development

• Proposals

• Related_Projects

• Talking_Points

Books

As of August 2009, there are three books on CouchDB being written and due to be published in late 2009 or early 2010:

• CouchDB: The Definitive Guide, O'Reilly Media, by J Chris Anderson, Jan Lehnardt & Noah Slater

• CouchDB in Action, Manning, by Chris Chandler

• Beginning CouchDB, Apress, by Joe Lennon

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