Tag Archives: NoSQL

The Future of CouchDB and Couchbase Server

“What’s the future of CouchDB? It’s Couchbase.” —Damien Katz “The future of CouchDB is CouchDB.” —Noah Slater First of all, don’t panic. The Apache CouchDB project is thriving. There are plenty of core contributors who are dedicated to the project. If you’re using CouchDB, you’re fine. If you’re considering using CouchDB, you’ll be fine. CouchDB [...]

Top Five Posts of 2011

Continuing a trend started by Cal Evans and then followed by Chris Cornutt, Matthew Turland, and Joe Devon; here are the top five most viewed posts from my blog in 2011. 5. CouchDB and Domain-Driven Design This post covered two topics that are of great interest to me. Document databases like CouchDB have much potential [...]

CouchApps at CouchConf NYC

Here are the slides from Monday’s CouchConf NYC session on CouchApps with CouchDB, JavaScript and HTML5: CouchConf NYC CouchApps View more presentations from Bradley Holt

Learning CouchDB at ZendCon 2011

Here are the slides from today’s ZendCon tutorial on Learning CouchDB: ZendCon 2011 Learning CouchDB View more presentations from Bradley Holt You can instead download the PDF version, if you’d prefer. If you were in this session, please give me feedback on Joind.in.

CouchApps at jQuery Conference Boston 2011

Here are the slides from today’s jQuery Conference presentation on CouchApps with CouchDB & jQuery: jQuery Conference Boston 2011 CouchApps View more presentations from Bradley Holt If you were in this talk, please give me feedback on SpeakerRate. Related links: Offline Apps HTML5 Web Storage Local Storage “Native” Mobile Web Apps jQuery Mobile PhoneGap Building [...]

Addressing the NoSQL Criticism

There were quite a few NoSQL critics at OSCON this year. I imagine this was true of past years as well, but I don’t know that first hand. I think there are several reasons behind the general disdain for NoSQL databases. First, NoSQL is horrible name. It implies that there’s something wrong with SQL and [...]

CouchApps at OSCON 2011

Here are the slides from today’s OSCON presentation on CouchApps with CouchDB, JavaScript & HTML5: OSCON 2011 CouchApps View more presentations from Bradley Holt Related links: CouchDB jQuery Plugin Reference Same-Origin Policy “Ground Computing” HTML5 Web Storage Mustache Evently Evented Programming With jQuery couchapp command line tool (Python) Pathbinder node.couchapp.js Quick Intro to node.couchapp.js Interactive [...]

Learning CouchDB at OSCON 2011

Here are the slides from today’s OSCON Data workshop on Learning CouchDB: OSCON 2011 Learning CouchDB View more presentations from Bradley Holt Related links: Installing CouchDB Download Couchbase Windows binary installer Other Alternatives to SQL MongoDB Redis Cassandra Riak HBase Libraries JavaScript CouchDB jQuery Plugin Reference jqCouch Perl CouchDB-Client POE-Component-Client-CouchDB CouchDB-View CouchDB-Deploy PHP Sag PHPCouch [...]

CouchDB jQuery Plugin Reference

I’ve had a difficult time finding documentation on the CouchDB jQuery plugin that ships with CouchDB. So, I’ve decided to create my own reference and share it with you. This should cover almost the entire CouchDB API that is available through the version of the plugin that ships with CouchDB 1.1.0. Setup The same-origin policy [...]

Speaking at ZendCon 2011

I’m happy to say that I will be speaking at this year’s ZendCon—the Zend PHP Conference for Developers. I’ll be presenting a tutorial on Learning CouchDB during the first day of the conference. From the session’s description: CouchDB is a document-oriented database that uses JSON documents, has a RESTful HTTP API, and is queried using [...]