The Road to CouchDB 2.0

CouchDB is awesome. We evaluated it some time ago¹ and we all thought that the way it worked, the performance, the management are light years ahead of everything else in this space. We ended up not using it because it looked like it was dead. I am so happy that it is not, and I hope this 2.0 release will bring in some more community love. It absolutely deserves it!<p>¹<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=11757015" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=11757015</a><p>(couchbase sales people came answering, even if couchbase is a completely different product that covers different usecases)

I don&#x27;t think any discussion of CouchDB is complete without mentioning PouchDB. And now that CouchDB will have clustering out of the box, there&#x27;s all the more reason to support offline versions of your database in your webapps.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pouchdb.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pouchdb.com&#x2F;</a>

Looks like a very solid release. CouchDB has always had that niche as an ultra reliable and steady NoSQL DB while being the best of breed option for offline syncing &#x2F; healing separated nodes.<p>It fell behind in terms of perception while Mongo was chasing benchmarks early on but has seemingly continued to just keep chugging along with it&#x27;s design decisions.<p>General community, &quot;You sure about that? I mean...benchmarks.&quot;<p>Couch, &quot;Yep...we&#x27;re sure.&quot;<p>* few years later *<p>General community, &quot;Have you seen CouchDB? This thing is really solid. Did you ever read that Hacker News thread about how terribly unreliable Mongo is?&quot;

Summary:<p>CouchDB 2.0 is a unification of the CouchDB 1.x line (a single-node DB) with BigCouch (which was a fork by Cloudant that added proper out-of-the-box clustering).

You have no idea how long I&#x27;ve been waiting for this. I seriously thought couchdb was dead. Looking forward to more frequent releases in the future.

I&#x27;ve had great experiences with Cloudant&#x27;s service and features, this will be a huge boon to the open-source community. I&#x27;ve tried the other Couch flavors and cloud hosts and there is no comparison on features, responsiveness and stability.

what are the new changes of 2.0 version?

CouchDB has not let me down once in over seven years of production usage.<p>I&#x27;m not sure what other software I could say that about.

I&#x27;m pretty confused about where the couchdb repo lives. Can anyone point me to it?<p>Oddly: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;couchbase&#x2F;couchdb?files=1" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;couchbase&#x2F;couchdb?files=1</a> seems to be more like the code than any of the Apache stuff

I am going to give CouchDB another look. I used to use it a lot, and experimented with BigCouch, but I didn&#x27;t used to like JavaScript, so doing views, etc. was a pain. Now, I don&#x27;t dislike JavaScript so much and CouchDB fits some use cases I have.

We&#x27;ve been using a self-hosted CouchDB 1.6.x instance on AWS, and actually a few days ago decided to try hosting the pre-RC version of 2.0. What are the benefits of using a hosted service like Cloudant over self-hosting?

Exciting news, I just started using CouchDB in a new project and it works really well.<p>Is the new Fauxton interface included? The old GUI feels more like a proof of concept than an actual user interface. Fauxton would be appreciated.

If I recall correctly, built-in clustering and the new Mango query language are the big new features. Are there others?

I thought CouchDB was abandoned years ago?