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The "Introduction" page has been changed by SebastianCohnen. The comment on this change is: added first level heading; added TOC; added js-syntax hl; minor stuff. http://wiki.apache.org/couchdb/Introduction?action=diff&rev1=1&rev2=2 -------------------------------------------------- + = Introduction = + <<TableOfContents()>> + == What CouchDB is == - * A document database server, accessible via a RESTful JSON API. * Ad-hoc and schema-free with a flat address space. @@ -16, +18 @@ == Key Characteristics == - ### Documents ### + === Documents === A CouchDB document is an object that consists of named fields. Field values may be strings, numbers, dates, or even ordered lists and associative maps. An example of a document would be a blog post: - {{{ + {{{#!highlight javascript + { "Subject": "I like Plankton" "Author": "Rusty" "PostedDate": "5/23/2006" "Tags": ["plankton", "baseball", "decisions"] "Body": "I decided today that I don't like baseball. I like plankton." + } }}} In the above example document, `Subject` is a field that contains a single string value "I like plankton". `Tags` is a field containing the list of values "plankton", "baseball", and "decisions".
