CouchDB: Thinking beyond the RDBMS

Simon Willison - Simon Willison - September 03, 2007

CouchDB: Thinking beyond the RDBMS. CouchDB is a fascinating project—an Erlang powered non-relational database with a JSON API that lets you define “viewsâ€? (really computed tables) based on JavaScript functions that execute using map/reduce. Damien Katz, the main developer currently works for MySQL and used to work on Lotus Notes.



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