Awesome CouchDB 
A curated meta resources & best practices list for CouchDB.
CouchDB is a document-oriented NoSQL database that syncs.
Pull-Requests are welcomed.
CouchDB
GitHub repository ↗ synced 2026/8/9
Awesome CouchDB
News & Blog Posts
- The Road to CouchDB 3.0: Prepare for 4.0 (02-26-2020)
Patterns & Best Practices
Best Practices
Best Practices, eHealth Africa.
Map/Reduce
Cloudant - MapReduce Primer
Great intro on reduce, group, group_level.
Using View Collation
Index mapping (emits) for data joins.
Views Collation
More documentation on "View Collation".
Cloudant - MapReduce and the Secondary Index (Video)
Great videos here on mapReduce, secondary indexes, and complex keys.
Cloudant - Design Documents
Cloudant's documentation is also great resource for learning concepts of CouchDB.
Cloudant - Design Document Management
How to manage design doc changes in production.
Joins
Joins with Views
Must read for understanding approach on doing efficient joins for CouchDB/PouchDB.
Grouping related documents together in Cloudant
An approach that leverages CouchDB high availability nature.
Document Versioning
Blogs
Docs
FAQ (old wiki)
Seems to have more faqs than the [new wiki](https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/COUCHDB/Frequently+Asked+Questions).
Books
The Definitive Guide
CouchDB's _"Dog"_ Book.
Videos
10 Common Misconceptions
More videos from this [conference](http://conf.couchdb.org/).
The NoSQL Tapes
CouchDB is discussed on [Volume 5 - CouchDB](http://nosqltapes.com/video/hoffman-and-kocoloski-on-cloudant-and-couchdb), [Volume 8 - MapReduce](http://nosqltapes.com/video/understanding-mapreduce-with-mike-miller).
Scaling Out with BigCouch
O'Reilly video on scaling out with BigCouch.
Libraries
Jaki
A simple ClojureScript CouchDB client
Community
IRC
`irc://irc.freenode.net/couchdb`
Apache CouchDB Conf
Lots of video links.
Mailing List
Grokbase
Mailing lists in a [Stack Overflow](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/couchdb)-like interface.
-dev is where developers of couchdb chat, -user is where users of couchdb chat
and there's some crosstalk ofc
-dev is appropriate if you're talking about changes to couchdb itself ("developer" doesn't mean you have to have a commit bit or anything) -rnewson
:star2:The Amazing CouchDB Committers and Project Managers :heart_eyes_cat:
Companies
eHealth Africa
Big user of CouchDB, check out their [best practices](https://github.com/eHealthAfrica/couchdb-best-practices).
Cloudant
Distributed database as a service (DBaaS).
Bitnami Launchpad for Google Cloud Platform
Host CouchDB on Google Cloud Platform.
Hosting
Related Projects
PouchDB
A pocket-sized database.
FoundationDB
CouchDB 4.0 will utilize FoundationDB.
Hoodie
A backend for Offline First applications.
Couchbase
NoSQL database.
RxDB
NoSQL-database for JavaScript Applications. RxDB provides modules for realtime replication with any CouchDB compliant endpoint and also with custom GraphQL endpoints.
- Migrating from Apache CouchDB - Comparison of CouchDB and CouchBase
Misc/Technical
Dynamo and CouchDB Clusters
Article about scaling CouchDB, using clusters.
Google’s paper on Sawzall
Exotic Reductions Examples.
What Every Developer Should Know About CouchDB
Article about lessons learned.
Attachments
PouchDB - Attachments are overrated
_"Update: since this post was written, the stability and performance of attachments in PouchDB has greatly improved. ..."_
Are attachments duplicated for each revision?
Mailing list discussion about attachments across revisions.
Backups
Simple CouchDB and Cloudant Backup
Article on IBM about backups.
Cloudant Backup Guide
Cloudant docs on backups.
CouchApps
Ddoc Lab
Create couchapps and CouchDB design docs right in your browser.
Scaling
Bitnami CouchDB
Bitnami makes it easy to run CouchDB in the cloud.
Resource Lists
Official CouchDB Wiki (old)
Some things aren't on new wiki yet.
Cloudant Official Guides
Applicable to CouchDB.