Mark,
Python and Ruby both have good libraries available but as Couch speaks
HTTP it doesn't really require anything more than an HTTP client
library such as cURL.
Couch is language independent, just like a web server itself. You can
create new docs in couch using nothing more than an HTML form and a
web browser.
When reading, all you need is to do is convert the http response from
JSON into the language of your choice.
A bulk uploader might read a long list of Files, convert then to an
array of JSON objects then loop through them. Then for each one, issue
a POST request with the JSON as a string in the body of the request.
So, you need a JSON library, IO for reading an input file and http
client library (like cURL). Language is up to you.
Jim
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On Oct 26, 2009, at 8:40 AM, Mark Vigeant
<[email protected]> wrote:
Hey-
I'd like to write a program to upload data into several documents in
a database, but first I want to ask a few questions to see how I
should go about it:
1. I started toying around with jcouchdb, a java API that I
found. Is there a "better" language to work with? Do you think
writing in JavaScript might be more efficient? Or are there other
libraries and APIs worth looking into that more people are using/
updating?
2. Has anyone else written any mass-upload programs? I was
thinking about writing a map-reduce job on top of Hadoop because
I've been playing around with hadoop for a while. Does anyone have
any other suggestions? Or better yet, example code?
Thanks a lot for your time!
Mark Vigeant
RiskMetrics Group, Inc.
