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Apache CouchDB: Introduction


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What CouchDB is

* A document database server, accessible via a RESTful JSON API.
* Ad-hoc and schema-free with a flat address space.
* Distributed, featuring robust, incremental replication with bi-directional conflict detection and management.
* Query-able and index-able, featuring a table oriented reporting engine that uses Javascript as a query language.

What it is Not

* A relational database.
* A replacement for relational databases.
* An object-oriented database. Or more specifically, meant to function as a seamless persistence layer for an OO programming language.

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