CouchDB: The Definitive Guide

Dedication; Foreword; Preface; Using Code Examples; Conventions Used in This Book; Safari?? Books Online; How to Contact Us; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 1: Why CouchDB?; 1.1 Relax; 1.2 A Different Way to Model Your Data; 1.3 A Better Fit for Common Applications; 1.4 Building Blocks for Larger Systems; 1.5 Local Data Is King; 1.6 Wrapping Up; Chapter 2: Eventual Consistency; 2.1 Working with the Grain; 2.2 The CAP Theorem; 2.3 Local Consistency; 2.4 Distributed Consistency; 2.5 Wrapping Up; Chapter 3: Getting Started; 3.1 All Systems Are Go!; 3.2 Welcome to Futon; 3.3 Your First Database and Document; 3.4 Running a Query Using MapReduce; 3.5 Triggering Replication; 3.6 Wrapping Up; Chapter 4: The Core API; 4.1 Server; 4.2 Databases; 4.3 Documents; 4.4 Replication; 4.5 Wrapping Up; Developing with CouchDB; Chapter 5: Design Documents; 5.1 Document Modeling; 5.2 The Query Server; 5.3 Applications Are Documents; 5.4 A Basic Design Document; 5.5 Looking to the Future; Chapter 6: Finding Your Data with Views; 6.1 What Is a View?; 6.2 Efficient Lookups; 6.3 The View to Get Comments for Posts; 6.4 Reduce/Rereduce; 6.5 Wrapping Up; Chapter 7: Validation Functions; 7.1 Document Validation Functions; 7.2 Validation???s Context; 7.3 Writing One; 7.4 Wrapping Up; Chapter 8: Show Functions; 8.1 The Show Function API; 8.2 Side Effect???Free; 8.3 Design Documents; 8.4 Querying Show Functions; 8.5 Etags; 8.6 Functions and Templates; 8.7 Learning Shows; 8.8 Using Templates; 8.9 Writing Templates; Chapter 9: Transforming Views with List Functions; 9.1 Arguments to the List Function; 9.2 An Example List Function; 9.3 List Theory; 9.4 Querying Lists; 9.5 Lists, Etags, and Caching; Example Application; Chapter 10: Standalone Applications; 10.1 Use the Correct Version; 10.2 Portable JavaScript; 10.3 Applications Are Documents; 10.4 Standalone; 10.5 In the Wild; 10.6 Wrapping Up; Chapter 11: Managing Design Documents; 11.1 Working with the Example Application; 11.2 Installing CouchApp; 11.3 Using CouchApp; 11.4 Download the Sofa Source Code; 11.5 Deploying Sofa; 11.6 Set Up Your Admin Account; 11.7 Configuring CouchApp with .couchapprc; Chapter 12: Storing Documents; 12.1 JSON Document Format; 12.2 Beyond _id and _rev: Your Document Data; 12.3 The Edit Page; 12.4 Saving a Document; 12.5 Wrapping Up; Chapter 13: Showing Documents in Custom Formats; 13.1 Rendering Documents with Show Functions; 13.2 Dynamic Dates; Chapter 14: Viewing Lists of Blog Posts; 14.1 Map of Recent Blog Posts; 14.2 Rendering the View as HTML Using a List Function; Deploying CouchDB; Chapter 15: Scaling Basics; 15.1 Scaling Read Requests; 15.2 Scaling Write Requests; 15.3 Scaling Data; 15.4 Basics First; Chapter 16: Replication; 16.1 The Magic; 16.2 Simple Replication with the Admin Interface; 16.3 Replication in Detail; 16.4 Continuous Replication; 16.5 That???s It?; Chapter 17: Conflict Management; 17.1 The Split Brain; 17.2 Conflict Resolution by Example; 17.3 Working with Conflicts; 17.4 Deterministic Revision IDs; 17.5 Wrapping Up; Chapter 18: Load Balancing; 18.1 Having a Backup; Chapter 19: Clustering; 19.1 Introducing CouchDB Lounge; 19.2 Consistent Hashing; 19.3 Growing the Cluster; Reference; Chapter 20: Change Notifications; 20.1 Polling for Changes; 20.2 Long Polling; 20.3 Continuous Changes; 20.4 Filters; 20.5 Wrapping Up; Chapter 21: View Cookbook for SQL Jockeys; 21.1 Using Views; 21.2 Look Up by Key; 21.3 Look Up by Prefix; 21.4 Aggregate Functions; 21.5 Get Unique Values; 21.6 Enforcing Uniqueness; Chapter 22: Security; 22.1 The Admin Party; 22.2 Basic Authentication; 22.3 Cookie Authentication; 22.4 Network Server Security; Chapter 23: High Performance; 23.1 Good Benchmarks Are Non-Trivial; 23.2 High Performance CouchDB; 23.3 Bulk Inserts and Mostly Monotonic DocIDs; 23.4 Bulk Document Inserts; 23.5 Batch Mode; 23.6 Single Document Inserts; 23.7 Hovercraft; 23.8 Trade-Offs; Chapter 24: Recipes; 24.1 Banking; 24.2 Ordering Lists; 24.3 Pagination; Appendixes; Installing on Unix-like Systems; Debian GNU/Linux; Ubuntu; Gentoo Linux; Problems; Installing on Mac OS X; CouchDBX; Homebrew; MacPorts; Installing on Windows; Installing from Source; Dependencies; Installing; Security Considerations; Running Manually; Running As a Daemon; Troubleshooting; JSON Primer; Data Types; The Power of B-trees; Colophon;