Return-Path: Delivered-To: apmail-couchdb-user-archive@www.apache.org Received: (qmail 41489 invoked from network); 12 Aug 2010 10:59:31 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail.apache.org) (140.211.11.3) by 140.211.11.9 with SMTP; 12 Aug 2010 10:59:31 -0000 Received: (qmail 62052 invoked by uid 500); 12 Aug 2010 10:59:30 -0000 Delivered-To: apmail-couchdb-user-archive@couchdb.apache.org Received: (qmail 61825 invoked by uid 500); 12 Aug 2010 10:59:27 -0000 Mailing-List: contact user-help@couchdb.apache.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Post: List-Id: Reply-To: user@couchdb.apache.org Delivered-To: mailing list user@couchdb.apache.org Received: (qmail 61811 invoked by uid 99); 12 Aug 2010 10:59:26 -0000 Received: from nike.apache.org (HELO nike.apache.org) (192.87.106.230) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with ESMTP; Thu, 12 Aug 2010 10:59:26 +0000 X-ASF-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.3 required=10.0 tests=PLING_QUERY X-Spam-Check-By: apache.org Received: from [140.211.11.9] (HELO minotaur.apache.org) (140.211.11.9) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with SMTP; Thu, 12 Aug 2010 10:59:24 +0000 Received: (qmail 41393 invoked by uid 99); 12 Aug 2010 10:59:02 -0000 Received: from localhost.apache.org (HELO [192.168.1.35]) (127.0.0.1) (smtp-auth username nslater, mechanism plain) by minotaur.apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with ESMTP; Thu, 12 Aug 2010 10:59:02 +0000 Subject: Re: CouchDB Huh! What is it good for? Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1081) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii From: Noah Slater In-Reply-To: <4C633B39.7050901@ericcarlson.co.uk> X-Noah: Awesome Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2010 11:58:59 +0100 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <351D2DF9-6501-486F-AA90-C62A962B923D@apache.org> References: <4C633B39.7050901@ericcarlson.co.uk> To: user@couchdb.apache.org X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1081) X-Virus-Checked: Checked by ClamAV on apache.org On 12 Aug 2010, at 01:07, Eric Carlson wrote: > The CouchDB book, for all its glory, is heavily weighted toward > CouchApps. I recommend having a look at > http://wiki.apache.org/couchdb/Basics, which lists interfaces to CouchDB > from many many programming languages other than javascript and friends. > If you do your image or audio/video processing in one of those (or > other) languages, CouchDB is readily available to be the document-based, > distributed/replicatable and scalable database that it is. As it says in > the CouchApp readme, 'CouchApp /is by no means the only way to use > CouchDB.' /It just happens to be way that is best documented in the > CouchDB book. I would like to address this in the next edition.