At SXSW, we started using CouchDB last fall because we needed to create an API for 3rd-party developers to write mobile apps using our event schedule data. So we copied the needed data from a collection of legacy databases into a CouchDB, threw in a few views, and, voila... a fast, well-documented, easy-to-use API. Now, a year later, we've stopped using the legacy databases altogether, in favor of putting the data straight into the CouchDB. In-house, we're re-writing our the apps that drove the schedule portion of our website to use the same API that our 3rd-party developers are using.
David Rose On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 10:18 PM, Andy <andrh...@hotmail.com> wrote: > > So Ive been obsessively reading about and researching CouchDB over the past > couple weeks. I even wrote my own Java client since the ones on the market > weren't up to my standards :) I've probably read 200 articles on google > explaining the downsides to CouchDB. I've read the Use Cases on Couch.io. > Ive read Jan's book, 10 times. And still I have this one overwhelming > question - what can I use it for??? > > Im a java developer. I work in a large enterprise but I also do lots of home > projects. At work we use Oracle with Hibernate for Java ORM. At home I use > MySQL. For attachments I use a CDN. Can anyone explain what real uses I > could use CouchDB for? Does it help reporting, does it let me index info for > that little search bar on most sites, etc? It sounds like it isn't great for > reporting since people are mixing it with Solr and Lucene and Elastic Search, > correct? It would be cool to write a site with no middleware (php, java, > etc) but I dont plan on doing that anytime soon. I did just read a great > thesis on that though :) The offline access feature will be huge one day. > > Its people like me that kinda like what we hear, we know we love REST and > JSON and built in http server, the replication and clustering and load > balancing honestly doesn't mean that much to me. The no transactions freaks > me out, so does the no ad-hoc querying, but I'd love to learn more. I would > like to use it if I just knew for what. Just a few simple use cases that > aren't super specific to someones bizarre business process. How has it > helped you? Sorry, Ive been waiting all week to ask this question. I REALLY > think this is a great community and I can't wait to learn more and help > promote the uses of this technology. Thanks- >
