Tag Archives: NoSQL

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 […]

CouchDB 1.1 Released

CouchDB 1.1 was released this past Friday. CouchBase has a CouchDB Release 1.1 Feature Guide that provides details on the new features available in CouchDB 1.1. Some of the key new features include: A replicator database that stores replications which are automatically restarted when the server restarts Native SSL support—you can now connect to CouchDB […]

CouchDB 1.0 Released

Apache CouchDB is a free/open source RESTful JSON document (NoSQL) database with map reduce views and peer-based replication. Version 1.0 was just released today and is 300% faster than the previous version and includes Microsoft Windows support, an authentication system, and flexible replicator options. The New York Times, ReadWriteEnterprise and InfoWorld covered the release. Couchio […]

Document Databases

At tomorrow’s Burlington, VT PHP Users Group meeting Matthew Weier O’Phinney will be giving a presentation on Document Databases. From the meeting description: NoSQL has become a new buzzword in web development—but what is it, exactly? We’ll look at the big picture to identify what types of NoSQL solutions exist, what sorts of problems they […]