Thursday Mar 27, 2014

CouchDB Weekly News, March 27

Welcome to the Apache CouchDB weekly news! From today on, we’ll bring you the highlights of what happened in the CouchDB Universe each thursday.

Major Discussions

BigCouch vs. Couchbase

Healthcare projects running on CouchDB

Weekly CouchDB meeting – summary

1.6.rc-2 : discussion around blocker; will be collated and sent to the mailing list

: discussion around blocker; will be collated and sent to the mailing list Marketing : there'll be a weekly CouchDB news (which you are currently reading)

: there'll be a weekly CouchDB news (which you are currently reading) Fauxton - status : Futon will be removed as soon as Fauxton-implementation is done; following release will be marked as beta

: Futon will be removed as soon as Fauxton-implementation is done; following release will be marked as beta Merges: discussion around BigCouch and rcouch merges will also be collated and sent to the mailing list

CouchDB Universe

Opinions

… and also in the news

"Relying on laws to keep your private information safe is like relying on a dog to guard a plate of bacon." – Stop Thinking the Government Can Fix Privacy

"Why your previous developer was terrible; and why your current one seems so amazing"

A comparison between the two, around conflict solving, revision docs, nodes, replicas and hashing. Find the thread here Albin Stigö asked for healthcare companies / projects using CouchDB. In the thread, a collection of examples and reasons why this is a good fit was discussed. CouchDB works well in healthcare due to its relative ease of configuration and deployment, easy synchronization, backups, attachment-handling and notifications and mobile-readiness. Some examples of projects / companies using CouchDB: CommCare HQ Neurofoundation . Find his summary and the entire thread here Posted on behalf of Lena Reinhard

Posted at 12:28PM Mar 27, 2014 by Noah Slater in News | |