http://simonwillison.net/2007-09-03T09:48:43+00:00Simon Willison2007-09-03T09:48:43+00:002007-09-03T09:48:43+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2007/Sep/3/labnotes/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="http://blog.labnotes.org/2007/09/02/couchdb-thinking-beyond-the-rdbms/">CouchDB: Thinking beyond the RDBMS</a></strong></p> CouchDB is a fascinating project—an Erlang powered non-relational database with a JSON API that lets you define “views” (really computed tables) based on JavaScript functions that execute using map/reduce. Damien Katz, the main developer currently works for MySQL and used to work on Lotus Notes. <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/couchdb">couchdb</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/damien-katz">damien-katz</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/databases">databases</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/erlang">erlang</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/javascript">javascript</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/json">json</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/lotusnotes">lotusnotes</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/mapreduce">mapreduce</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/mysql">mysql</a></p>