CouchDB is a new breed of database for the Internet, geared to meet the needs of today s dynamic web applications. With this concise introduction, you ll learn how CouchDB s simple model for storing, processing, and accessing data makes it ideal for the type of data and rapid response users now demand from your applications and how easy CouchDB is to set up, deploy, maintain, and scale.

The code-packed examples in this book will help you learn how to work with documents, populate a simple database, replicate data from one database to another, and a host of other...

Do you know what to do if your web application goes viral and usage suddenly explodes? This concise guide introduces you to Couchbase Server, an extremely fast NoSQL database that automatically distributes data across a cluster of commodity servers or virtual machines. You ll learn hands-on how to build a Couchbase cluster without changing your application, and how to expand your database on the fly without interrupting service.

Discover how this open source server can help your application gain scalability and performance.

• Learn how the server s architecture affects the...

Today s highly interactive websites pose a challenge for traditional SQL databases the ability to scale rapidly and serve loads of concurrent users. With this concise guide, you ll learn how to build web applications on top of Couchbase Server 2.0, a NoSQL database that can handle websites and social media where hundreds of thousands of users read and write large volumes of information.

Using food recipe information as examples, this book demonstrates how to take advantage of Couchbase s document-oriented database design, and how to store and query data with various CRUD operations....