So Ive been obsessively reading about and researching CouchDB over the past
couple weeks. I even wrote my own Java client since the ones on the market
weren't up to my standards :) I've probably read 200 articles on google
explaining the downsides to CouchDB. I've read the Use Cases on Couch.io. Ive
read Jan's book, 10 times. And still I have this one overwhelming question -
what can I use it for???
Im a java developer. I work in a large enterprise but I also do lots of home
projects. At work we use Oracle with Hibernate for Java ORM. At home I use
MySQL. For attachments I use a CDN. Can anyone explain what real uses I could
use CouchDB for? Does it help reporting, does it let me index info for that
little search bar on most sites, etc? It sounds like it isn't great for
reporting since people are mixing it with Solr and Lucene and Elastic Search,
correct? It would be cool to write a site with no middleware (php, java, etc)
but I dont plan on doing that anytime soon. I did just read a great thesis on
that though :) The offline access feature will be huge one day.
Its people like me that kinda like what we hear, we know we love REST and JSON
and built in http server, the replication and clustering and load balancing
honestly doesn't mean that much to me. The no transactions freaks me out, so
does the no ad-hoc querying, but I'd love to learn more. I would like to use
it if I just knew for what. Just a few simple use cases that aren't super
specific to someones bizarre business process. How has it helped you? Sorry,
Ive been waiting all week to ask this question. I REALLY think this is a great
community and I can't wait to learn more and help promote the uses of this
technology. Thanks-
