A few months ago I decided to try and build a web application in a way that supported how the application actually worked. The biggest hurdle was trying to keep 3nf and still retain the original goal. Needless to say that was a major exercise in futility, the big idea was lost and we ended up just doing it the normal way.

I’ve been looking at things like hypertable, but have no need for it. Enter couchdb.

Instead of your typical db structure data is stored as a document (or object for us oop minded). Documentation is still growing, but the project was adopted by apache, and regardless of how you feel about apache that should for the project.

After a few days of research my main question is how best do you implement it? I’d love to use this for my gray network project, but I’m thinking I may still be in the discovery phase with couchdb when it launches

Anyways whats your take on how best to implement couch db? I’m still researching security, performance, etc, but I think couchdb is definitely in my future