It’s been a while and stuff happened. Here is what I heard about. In CouchDB-land that is. Enjoy!
In Production!
Wego, a travel meta-search engine in beta uses CouchDB. No mention of how and what for exactly, but seeing people going live with CouchDB is very encouraging. Keep it up and get in touch, we’d love to know if you hit any walls!
CouchDB and Geo Data
My old friend Volker is integrating a bunch of different geo data encoded sources all into CouchDB and uses CouchDB’s fulltext search API to sneak in spacial lookups. Very neat. He promised to write more about the implementation.
FUD and de-FUD
People spend time looking for scenarios where non-relational databases make no sense and then concur that they must be bad. Whatever. Yurii does a nice job debunking some of the FUD that is making the rounds.
Change?
Tim Bray notices a lot of changes in a lot of areas including databases. Guess what his first mention is! The gist of his post is that things we’ve been taking for granted for years and decades are now being seriously questioned.
o_O
eutrilla asks if new-style databases will solve the problems OO-databases never could. Who knows?
Playing with CouchDB
Adam from SweetSpot runs a nice tutorial on how to build, install & play with CouchDB. Thanks!
Ruby DataMapper & CouchDB
Fresh from github: Bernd Schaefer’s CouchDB adapter for DataMapper. This was talked a lot about at the MountainWest RubyConf this year and a few folks said they were going for it, but this is the first thing I see released. Also, DataMapper is mighty cool.
Perl^2
Speaking of scripting languages, Perl strikes twice: David Leadbeater has put up a CouchDB interface for Perl onto CPAN.
Paul Driver released a CouchDB interface to POE also available at CPAN.
Keep it coming guys!
C++
Remember C version 2? :-) Nils Adermann wrote a C++ library for CouchDB loosely modelled after couchdb4j. Do check it out.
NodeDB
Jeffrey Hulten came up with a CouchDB inspired data storage solution in plain Python. Welcome NodeDB.
Interna
And what about CouchDB itself? Damien committed a first cut of incremental reduce to trunk. With that and a bunch of more bugfixes, an 0.8 release is near. Rest assured, I let you know ;-)
Until then, take care.
