CouchDB is a database that completely embraces the web. Store your data with JSON documents. Access your documents with your web browser, via HTTP
<api/basics>. Query <api/doc>, combine <views>, and transform <listfun> your documents with JavaScript
<query-server/js>. CouchDB works well with modern web and mobile apps. You can distribute your data, efficiently using CouchDB’s incremental
replication <replication/intro>. CouchDB supports master-master setups with automatic conflict <replication/conflicts> detection.
CouchDB comes with a suite of features, such as on-the-fly document transformation and real-time change notifications <changes>, that make web development a breeze. It even comes with an easy to use web administration console, served directly out of CouchDB! We care a lot about distributed scaling. CouchDB is highly available and partition tolerant, but is also eventually consistent <intro/consistency>. And we care a lot about your data. CouchDB has a fault-tolerant storage engine that puts the safety of your data first.
In this section you'll learn about every basic bit of CouchDB, see upon what conceptions and technologies it built and walk through short tutorial that teach how to use CouchDB.
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