CouchDB: The Definitive Guide Couch DB

• Table of Contents
• Foreword
• Preface
  • Using Code Examples
  • Conventions Used in This Book
  • Safari® Books Online
  • How to Contact Us
  • Acknowledgments
    • J. Chris
    • Jan
    • Noah
• Part I. Introduction
  • Chapter 1. Why CouchDB?
    • Relax
    • A Different Way to Model Your Data
    • A Better Fit for Common Applications
      • Self-Contained Data
      • Syntax and Semantics
    • Building Blocks for Larger Systems
      • CouchDB Replication
    • Local Data Is King
    • Wrapping Up
  • Chapter 2. Eventual Consistency
    • Working with the Grain
    • The CAP Theorem
    • Local Consistency
      • The Key to Your Data
      • No Locking
      • Validation
    • Distributed Consistency
      • Incremental Replication
      • Case Study
    • Wrapping Up
  • Chapter 3. Getting Started
    • All Systems Are Go!
    • Welcome to Futon
    • Your First Database and Document
    • Running a Query Using MapReduce
    • Triggering Replication
    • Wrapping Up
  • Chapter 4. The Core API
    • Server
    • Databases
    • Documents
      • Revisions
      • Documents in Detail
        • Attachments
    • Replication
    • Wrapping Up
• Part II. Developing with CouchDB
  • Chapter 5. Design Documents
    • Document Modeling
    • The Query Server
    • Applications Are Documents
    • A Basic Design Document
    • Looking to the Future
  • Chapter 6. Finding Your Data with Views
    • What Is a View?
    • Efficient Lookups
      • Find One
      • Find Many
      • Reversed Results
    • The View to Get Comments for Posts
    • Reduce/Rereduce
      • Lessons Learned
    • Wrapping Up
  • Chapter 7. Validation Functions
    • Document Validation Functions
    • Validation’s Context
    • Writing One
      • Type
      • Required Fields
      • Timestamps
      • Authorship
    • Wrapping Up
  • Chapter 8. Show Functions
    • The Show Function API
    • Side Effect–Free
    • Design Documents
    • Querying Show Functions
      • Design Document Resources
      • Query Parameters
      • Accept Headers
    • Etags
    • Functions and Templates
      • The !json Macro
      • The !code Macro
    • Learning Shows
    • Using Templates
    • Writing Templates
  • Chapter 9. Transforming Views with List Functions
    • Arguments to the List Function
    • An Example List Function
    • List Theory
    • Querying Lists
    • Lists, Etags, and Caching
• Part III. Example Application
  • Chapter 10. Standalone Applications
    • Use the Correct Version
    • Portable JavaScript
    • Applications Are Documents
    • Standalone
    • In the Wild
    • Wrapping Up
  • Chapter 11. Managing Design Documents
    • Working with the Example Application
    • Installing CouchApp
    • Using CouchApp
    • Download the Sofa Source Code
      • CouchApp Clone
      • ZIP and TAR Files
      • Join the Sofa Development Community on GitHub
      • The Sofa Source Tree
    • Deploying Sofa
      • Pushing Sofa to Your CouchDB
      • Visit the Application
    • Set Up Your Admin Account
      • Deploying to a Secure CouchDB
    • Configuring CouchApp with .couchapprc
  • Chapter 12. Storing Documents
    • JSON Document Format
    • Beyond _id and _rev: Your Document Data
    • The Edit Page
      • The HTML Scaffold
    • Saving a Document
      • Validation
      • Save Your First Post
    • Wrapping Up
  • Chapter 13. Showing Documents in Custom Formats
    • Rendering Documents with Show Functions
      • The Post Page Template
    • Dynamic Dates
  • Chapter 14. Viewing Lists of Blog Posts
    • Map of Recent Blog Posts
    • Rendering the View as HTML Using a List Function
      • Sofa’s List Function
      • The Final Result
• Part IV. Deploying CouchDB
  • Chapter 15. Scaling Basics
    • Scaling Read Requests
    • Scaling Write Requests
    • Scaling Data
    • Basics First
  • Chapter 16. Replication
    • The Magic
    • Simple Replication with the Admin Interface
    • Replication in Detail
    • Continuous Replication
    • That’s It?
  • Chapter 17. Conflict Management
    • The Split Brain
    • Conflict Resolution by Example
    • Working with Conflicts
    • Deterministic Revision IDs
    • Wrapping Up
  • Chapter 18. Load Balancing
    • Having a Backup
  • Chapter 19. Clustering
    • Introducing CouchDB Lounge
    • Consistent Hashing
      • Redundant Storage
      • Redundant Proxies
      • View Merging
    • Growing the Cluster
      • Moving Partitions
      • Splitting Partitions
• Part V. Reference
  • Chapter 20. Change Notifications
    • Polling for Changes
    • Long Polling
    • Continuous Changes
    • Filters
    • Wrapping Up
  • Chapter 21. View Cookbook for SQL Jockeys
    • Using Views
      • Defining a View
      • Querying a View
      • MapReduce Functions
        • Map functions
        • Reduce functions
    • Look Up by Key
    • Look Up by Prefix
    • Aggregate Functions
    • Get Unique Values
    • Enforcing Uniqueness
  • Chapter 22. Security
    • The Admin Party
      • Creating New Admin Users
      • Hashing Passwords
    • Basic Authentication
      • Update Validations Again
    • Cookie Authentication
    • Network Server Security
  • Chapter 23. High Performance
    • Good Benchmarks Are Non-Trivial
    • High Performance CouchDB
      • Hardware
      • An Implementation Note
    • Bulk Inserts and Mostly Monotonic DocIDs
      • Optimized Examples: Views and Replication
    • Bulk Document Inserts
    • Batch Mode
    • Single Document Inserts
    • Hovercraft
    • Trade-Offs
      • But…My Boss Wants Numbers!
      • A Call to Arms
  • Chapter 24. Recipes
    • Banking
      • Accountants Don’t Use Erasers
      • Wrapping Up
    • Ordering Lists
      • A List of Integers
      • A List of Floats
    • Pagination
      • Example Data
      • A View
      • Setup
      • Slow Paging (Do Not Use)
        • The dealbreaker
      • Fast Paging (Do Use)
      • Jump to Page
• Part VI. Appendixes
  • Appendix A. Installing on Unix-like Systems
    • Debian GNU/Linux
    • Ubuntu
    • Gentoo Linux
    • Problems
  • Appendix B. Installing on Mac OS X
    • CouchDBX
    • Homebrew
    • MacPorts
  • Appendix C. Installing on Windows
  • Appendix D. Installing from Source
    • Dependencies
      • Debian-Based (Including Ubuntu) Systems
      • Mac OS X
    • Installing
    • Security Considerations
    • Running Manually
    • Running As a Daemon
      • SysV/BSD-Style Systems
      • Mac OS X
    • Troubleshooting
  • Appendix E. JSON Primer
    • Data Types
      • Numbers
      • Strings
      • Booleans
      • Arrays
      • Objects
      • Nulls
  • Appendix F. The Power of B-trees
• Index