Web Hosting CouchDB Databases

Web Hosting CouchDB Databases

CouchDB, as a document-based NoSQL database, makes it possible to combine unstructured data sets. It stores it as JSON documents with field/value pairs expressed as simple text, numbers or date/time values as well as ordered lists or associative arrays. Each document in a database has an unique identifier; there is no required document schema allowing you to easily add structure on-the-fly compared with relational databases that only feature eventual consistency delivering both availability and partition tolerance capabilities compared with relational counterparts.

RESTful HTTP API and browser-friendly Futon GUI make creating and managing database applications straightforward. CouchDB NoSQL database server’s flexible architecture enables deployment across different platforms and devices without losing data, and designed specifically to be multi-tenant to offer Software as a Service (SaaS) solutions with unparalleled reliability and scalability.

CouchDB’s file layout and commitment system is designed with atomicity in mind; once documents have been committed they won’t ever be overwritten again – guaranteeing the database stays in a consistent state. Furthermore, CouchDB uses replication model to efficiently sync databases across servers; using its incremental replication strategy it is also capable of handling poor network connections without losing data.

CouchDB was developed on the Erlang OTP platform – a functional programming language and development environment designed for telecom real-time applications – to offer robust and fault-tolerant NoSQL database storage. With multi-version concurrency control and message passing for processing, CouchDB makes an excellent choice for high performance and scale applications.