Congrats! On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 8:57 AM, Noah Slater <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello, > > Apache CouchDB 1.0.0 has been released and is available for download: > > http://couchdb.apache.org/downloads.html > > This is a huge milestone for the CouchDB community, and we'd like to thank > every single person who's helped us get this far. This project would be > nothing without its community, and we are fortunate enough to be blessed > with a very healthy one. > > Changes in this release: > > * More efficient header commits. > * Use O_APPEND to save lseeks. > * Faster implementation of pread_iolist(). Further improves performance on > concurrent reads. > * Added authentication caching > * Faster default view collation. > * Added option to include update_seq in view responses. > > This builds on the changes made in 0.11.1, also released today. > > Apache CouchDB is a document-oriented database that can be queried and > indexed in a MapReduce fashion using JavaScript. CouchDB also offers > incremental replication with bi-directional conflict detection and > resolution. > > CouchDB provides a RESTful JSON API than can be accessed from any > environment that allows HTTP requests. There are myriad third-party client > libraries that make this even easier from your programming language of > choice. CouchDB’s built in Web administration console speaks directly to the > database using HTTP requests issued from your browser. > > CouchDB is written in Erlang, a robust functional programming language > ideal for building concurrent distributed systems. Erlang allows for a > flexible design that is easily scalable and readily extensible. > > Relax and prosper, > > N
