1. Today’s Talk CouchDB overview What is JSON? CouchDB Architecture

3. CouchDB is Document-oriented DBMS written in Erlang which stores data in a schema-free manner. No tables No columns No keys And No relations

4. Instead.. CouchDB stores data in a series of documents and offers a JavaScript-based view model for aggregating and reporting on the data. Also know as Spidermonkey (perform aggregation and joins, allowing you to report on the documents in the database)

5. Who can use CrouchDB? you don’t have to have a computer science degree to interact with the database

6. JSON

7. JSON is.. An open, text-based, human-readable data interchange format derived from the JavaScript programming language. { make: "Ford", model: "Mustang", year: 2009, body: "Coupe", color: "Red“ }

8. How JSON represents CouchDB! Example: { _id: "0ff345433e3464ae346453", _rev: "4-18435343", name: "John Smith", salary: 38000, department: "Accounts" }

9. CouchDB Architecture

10. Advocates

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