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CouchDB is a document-oriented database that uses JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) documents as the unit of storage. JSON is a self-describing document type similar in some respects to XML but more ...

Because any database that does not support the SQL language is, by definition, a "NoSQL" database, some very different databases coexist under the NoSQL banner. Massively scalable data stores like ...

“The right tool for the right job.” If such wisdom holds true anywhere, it certainly holds true with the choice of database a developer picks for a given application. Document databases, one of the ...

The surge in interest in non-relational databases—often known collectively as NoSQL—is now impossible for Web developers to ignore. Whether you are looking at a non-relational database for reasons of ...

CouchOne (news, site), provider of support, development toolkits, training and hosting for open source document database Apache CouchDB, is trying to change the perception that CouchDB is just another ...

“The right tool for the right job.” If such wisdom holds true anywhere, it certainly holds true with the choice of database a developer picks for a given application. Document databases, one of the ...

Sauce Labs decided they needed to dump CouchDB and move to MySQL. Two years ago, a different blog detailed how and why to move from MySQL to CouchDB. It all depends on what you need for your ...