Relaxing on the Couch
CouchDB lives up to its tag line: relax. Instead of focusing only on big-iron cluster installations, CouchDB aims to support a variety of deployment scenarios from the datacenter down to the smartphone. You can run CouchDB on your Android phone, on your MacBook, and in your datacenter. Written in Erlang, CouchDB is heartily built—the only way to shut it down is to kill the process! With its append-only storage model, your data is virtually incorruptible and easy to replicate, back up, and restore.
CouchDB is document-oriented, using JSON as its storage and communication language. Like Riak, all calls to CouchDB happen over its REST interface. Replication can be one-way or bidirectional and ad hoc or continuous. CouchDB ...
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