Introduction to CouchDB
Joe Lennon · Apress eBooks · 2009
CouchDB is a relatively new database management system, designed from the ground up to suit modern software applications that tend to be web-based, document-oriented, and distributed in nature. For several decades now, relational database management systems have reigned supreme in application and database development, with the likes of Oracle, SQL Server, and MySQL being used in every type of software application imaginable.