If you haven’t noticed, we really like the guys from OpenBD. Matt Woodard is a great guy and is quite prolific. He recently put together a a great resource list for CouchDB and I felt that it would be a good idea to post it here since we support CouchDB.

CouchDB Resources List

Since I did quite a bit of research for my post on authentication and security in CouchDB I figured I’d share what I came across as a link dump. Enjoy!

Reference Material

• http://couchdb.apache.org (Main Apache CouchDB site)
• http://wiki.apache.org/couchdb/ (The wiki)
• http://books.couchdb.org/relax (The O’Reilly Definitive Guide)
• http://guide.couchdb.org/draft/cookbook.html (“Views for SQL Jockeys”)
• http://wiki.apache.org/couchdb/HTTP_Document_API (The HTTP API)

General Info and Tutorials

• http://iriscouch.com (free CouchDB hosting)
• http://answers.oreilly.com/topic/1048-why-couchdb/
• http://sql.dzone.com/articles/addressing-nosql-criticism
• http://www.ateamsystems.com/blog/Why-Switch-To-CouchDB-For-Web-Applications
• http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource/library/os-couchdb/index.html
• http://blog.cloudant.com/mapreduce-from-the-basics-to-the-actually-useful/(great tutorial on map/reduce)
• http://net.tutsplus.com/tutorials/getting-started-with-couchdb/
• http://blog.nextive.com/426-crash-course-in-couchdb/
• http://marcgrabanski.com/articles/exiciting-features-in-couchdb
• http://pawelstawicki.blogspot.com/2009/12/couchdb.html
• http://www.linux-mag.com/id/7597/
• http://www.linux-mag.com/id/7603/
• http://answers.oreilly.com/topic/1396-running-a-couchdb-query-using-mapreduce/
• http://blog.edparcell.com/using-jquery-and-couchdb-to-build-a-simple-we
• http://blog.cloudbees.com/2011/07/nosql-couchdb-with-cloudbees-and.html
• http://couchapp.org/page/index (Building applications entirely in CouchDB)
• http://nosql.mypopescu.com/post/1529034946/scaling-out-couchdb-with-bigcouch (slide deck and one-hour video presentation about scaling with BigCouch)

CouchDB in Government

• http://answers.oreilly.com/topic/305-load-recovery-gov-grant-data-into-a-couchdb-database/ (putting recovery.gov XML data into Couch to make it more usable and useful)
• http://www.voiceingov.org/blog/?cat=58 (using CouchDB in Open311 and open government applications)
• http://www.full360.com/blogs/Extracting-Government-Spending-Data-Talend-Stored-CouchDB
• http://blog.tropo.com/tag/couchdb/page/2/
• Census Data in CouchDB (video)
• http://gcn.com/Articles/2008/09/28/Why-go-relational.aspx
• http://govfresh.com/2011/01/experiments-in-open-data-baltimore-edition/

General Case Studies

• http://www.readwriteweb.com/enterprise/2010/08/lhc-couchdb.php (Why CERN uses CouchDB on the Large Hadron Collider project)
• http://gigaom.com/cloud/how-nosql-is-helping-allay-seattles-radiation-fears/(using BigCouch to store data about radiation levels coming across the Pacific after the tsunami in Japan)
• http://siliconangle.com/blog/2011/10/12/big-data-at-monsanto-genome-sequencing-with-bigcouch/ (genome sequencing using BigCouch)
• http://johnpwood.net/2009/06/15/couchdb-a-case-study/ (6-part case study on converting an application called TextMe to CouchDB)
• http://johnpwood.net/2009/06/30/couchdb-databases-and-documents/
• http://johnpwood.net/2009/07/10/couchdb-views—the-advantages/
• http://johnpwood.net/2009/07/21/couchdb-views-the-challenges/
• http://johnpwood.net/2009/08/04/couchdb-application-changes/
• http://johnpwood.net/2009/08/18/couchdb-the-last-mile/

Search

• http://www.euphonious-intuition.com/2011/11/fulltext-searching-couchdb-with-elasticsearch/
• http://www.elasticsearch.org/tutorials/2010/08/01/couchb-integration.html
• http://ehcache.net/nosql/elasticsearch-searchable-couchdb/
• http://wiki.apache.org/couchdb/Full_text_search
• http://www.dzone.com/links/jquery_ui_autocompletion_with_elasticsearch_backe.html
• https://github.com/rnewson/couchdb-lucene
• http://arnoldit.com/wordpress/2010/07/31/30-july-couchdb-lucene-search/
• http://blog.mattwoodward.com/string-matching-in-couchdb-views