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CouchDB and Me

Topics
Fault Tolerance,
Data Access,
Programming,
Ruby

In this talk from RubyFringe, Damien Katz explains what drove him to create CouchDB, why he chose Erlang and more.

Damien Katz Relaxing on CouchDB

Topics
Architecture,
Database Design

In this interview, Damien Katz talks about CouchDB, a distributed, fault tolerant, document oriented database developed by Apache Incubator. CouchDB is written in Erlang, and the database is accessed through an HTTP/JSON API. The database view engine is run on JavaScript, but other languages have been used like Ruby and Python.