ApacheCon EU 2014

This talk is an overview over the past 24-36 months of the CouchDB project. Join us on a riveting tour through a near-death experience and a phoenix from the ashes-like rebirth of the project as well as major technological improvements. You will learn where Apache CouchDB stands today and where it is, boldly, going.

With the departure of its lead developer and the abandonment of the project by the company founded by three of the original CouchDB developers, many felt that CouchDB is dying. This couldn’t be further from the truth and this talk explains what happened and how CouchDB is more alive than ever and has a bright future ahead of it!

his an introduction to CouchDB. We'll tour the user-facing API while looking at the concepts behind it and what to build on top of them.

You will learn basic data storage and retrieval, data-design, querying, replication and various neat features on the edges of CouchDB. If you are coming from the relational world, this talk will help you understand how to "think in CouchDB".