Hello: A couple of weeks ago, I gave a 20-minute presentation on CouchDB at the code4lib conference (a collection of library developers and library geeks). The session was recorded, and the video will be available from the Internet Archive at some point in the future - but I thought I would share the slides with the community: http://coffeecode.net/archives/151-CouchDB-delicious-sacrilege.html
Note that: 1) My background is with relational databases - 8 years with DB2 and co-authoring a book on Apache Derby - so the "delicious sacrilege" of the title refers to my encounters with a document database 2) Owing to those 8 years at IBM, I had a whole lot of (mostly bad) experiences with Notes. But after a few days of playing around with CouchDB, I'm a believer in its potential for good. 3) I was running CouchDB trunk as of two weeks ago, so I think I got hit by the API change for attachments and couldn't successfully retrieve the attachments I was adding to docs. No big deal; I knew what was going on. 4) I was hoping to have the 200 people in the audience playing with CouchDB on my laptop during my presentation, but suffered a desktop crash on the way to the podium which brought down the server. Alas, no live scalability test :( I should note that the presentation itself is licensed under a Creative Commons BY-NC license, should anyone want to reuse or improve it. A big thanks to Damian and the rest of the CouchDB developers! -- Dan Scott Laurentian University
