Comments on: CouchDB’s RESTful API

By: andy matthews

andy matthews — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 21:05:47 +0000

Really well done article. I saw a presentation by a fellow named John Paul Ashenfelter at a conference I was at last week:
http://www.ashenfelter.com/

He covered NoSQL: CouchDB, Redis, and MongoDB. It sounds really interesting, but I’m not unsure of how it can be used. It’s schema-less, so it only stores “documents” referenced by id? So I could have 100 different documents, all in the same database, and all of them could have a different structure?

What’s a use case for a system like this?

By: JIm

JIm — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 19:39:52 +0000

I appreciate your simple, straight forward article. CouchDB is intriguing, eially given the simple integration with JavaScript. However, like Dan above me, I am wondering if there is any security capability. Did your article leave it out on purpose for simplicity? Is there some way to ensure only properly authenticated individuals can do something like, for example, drop databases?

Thanks,
Jim

By: Dan

Dan — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 15:08:56 +0000

CouchDB is a really interesting project. But until there’s a proper security model, it’s not really usable. Or did i miss something?

By: Razvan

Razvan — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 10:25:27 +0000

I see CouchDB as a very interesting concept and I like the idea of using JSON as the de facto format. The fact that it is manageable by simple JavaScript is also a big bonus.

Thank you for sharing!
I’ll definitely give this a try.