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Welcome to [[http://couchdb.apache.org/|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]]
  * [[http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/couchdb/trunk/README|README]]
  * [[http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/couchdb/trunk/NEWS|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 :[[http://planet.couchdb.org/|Planet]], [[http://www.reddit.com/r/CouchDB/|Subreddit]], [[http://twitter.com/CouchDB|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:

  * [[http://books.couchdb.org/relax|CouchDB: The Definitive Guide]], O'Reilly Media, by J Chris Anderson, Jan Lehnardt & Noah Slater
  * [[http://manning.com/chandler/|CouchDB in Action]], Manning, by Chris Chandler
  * [[http://www.apress.com/book/view/9781430272373|Beginning CouchDB]], Apress, by Joe Lennon


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