CouchDB

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NoSQL database

Everything in CouchDB is javascript.

CouchDB uses optimistic concurrency control, which does not use any locking system.

Articles Related

Document

Document = set of key/value pairs

"Subject": "I like Rixt" 
"Author": "Nico" 
"PostedDate": "5/27/2013" 
"Tags": ["love", "fact", "wife"]
"Body": "Just to say that i love my wife"

Update

• Full Consistency within a document
• Lock-free concurrency (Optimistic – attempts to edit dirty data fail)
• No multi-row transactions.
  • A Transaction is a sequence of related record updates
  • Entire sequence considered ACID

Views

Map Reduce Views:

{
   "_id":"_design/company",
   "_rev":"12345",
   "language":"javascript",
   "views":{
      "all":{
         "map":"function(doc) {if (doc.Type=='customer’) emit(null, doc) }"
      },
      "by_lastname":{
         "map":"function(doc) {if (doc.Type=='customer’) emit(doc.LastName, doc) }"
      },
      "total_purchases":{
         "map":"function(doc) { if (doc.Type=='purchase’) emit(doc.Customer, doc.Amount) }",
         "reduce":"function(keys, values) { return sum(values) }"
      }
   }
}