Tuesday, December 16, 2008

CouchDB & Related Links

Labnotes � CouchDB: Thinking beyond the RDBMS

A flat document storage engine calling itself a database? On any other day, that’s what you’ll get from a collaboration between a vendor and PR agency, pushing new ways to achieve synergy and optimize the bottom line to Global 5000 companies.

This day, it happens to be CouchDB. And CouchDB on first look seems like the future of database without the weight that is SQL and write consistency.

also of interest:  READ CONSISTENCY: DUMB DATABASES, SMART SERVICES

Programming CouchDB with Javascript - plok

To illustrate how easy and straightforward writing applications for CouchDB is, we are going to build a simple todo-list application in Javascript. You should be familiar with HTMLand Javascript and the DOM. You do not need any Ajaxexperience. Although we are going to use it, all will be abstracted away.

CouchDb PHP Hello World Tutorial - plok

This HowTo explains how to write PHP applications that use CouchDb as there data storage. It assumes you are familiar with PHP’s syntax and at best you already wrote some code for a project. It’s also good to know about databases and how and why to use them in PHP applications. If you never heard about classes and objects, you might be able to follow the examples anyway, so don’t worry about that.




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