CouchDB - More Updates ...

I was lucky to attend a session by my colleague who invested a lot of time in getting a prototype of couchDB to work. Some of my observations...

• Dont map it to features of relational db
• Doesnt enforce user security/isolation levels
• It is document-based database
• Stores JSON format documents
• For better read speeds, we need VIEWS to be pre-created
• Event consistent model
• Follows Brewer's CAP theorem
• Equivalent of WHERE clause is Map-Reduce way of selecting & aggregating contents.
• Definitely not an enterprise class database
• Excellent for applications that can model and consume document databases (eg. LDAP structure, Orkut like sites, user profiles, patient profiles, employee details database etc)