It doesn't always have to be relational: Introduction into CouchDB

CouchDB is fundamentally different from what you're used to, but it offers a refreshing and different approach for storing data in your web application and it actually scales tremendously well in large web apps. In this session, you'll get an introduction into CouchDB, its API and the mechanisms behind the API and we're going to look into hooking CouchDB into technologies like Flex and ColdFusion.

  • Difficulty: Experienced
  • Prerequisites: An open mind and knowledge of Flex and ColdFusion.
  • Session Track: ColdFusion,Flex

Session Detail

Web developers have grown into the habit of pretty much solely relying on relational data base management systems to store the data of web applications. But besides the well-known RDBMS there is a huge community of
supporters of alternative database systems out there: Object-oriented database management systems, hybrids between OO- and relational DBMS and many more. And then there's CouchDB (subtitled: "relax") - a document-oriented database that recently got promoted from the Apache incubator to becoming a full-blown Apache-supported open source project. CouchDB is fundamentally different from what you're used to, but it offers a refreshing and different approach for storing data in your web application and it actually scales tremendously well in large web apps.
In this session, you'll get an introduction into CouchDB, its API and the mechanisms behind the API and we're going to look into hooking CouchDB into technologies like Flex and ColdFusion.

Speakers

Kai Koenig (Wellington, New Zealand)

Kai is a German Software Solutions Architect living in New Zealand by choice but working internationally. He has just started a new venture as a self-employed consultant for Adobe and other web technologies under the brand Ventego Creative. Before that he spent a few years working as a Software Solutions Architect for Marcomedia and Adobe partner companies in Europe and New Zealand. More...

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