Hands On Workshop: Introduction to Apache CouchDB

Presentation

Apache CouchDB / Cloudant Slides

Prerequisites

1. IBM Cloud Sign up: Use this link to sign into your account if you already have one : https://ibm.biz/Bdqn4r
2. Postman to finish workshop
3. I also really like Insomia
4. Load existing workspace into postman or insomnia and change environment variables.
5. Create database and load person.json into the database. You should get 1000 person records. I used Mockaroo to generate this random data.

Optional

1. Run couchdb locally

   1. docker pull couchdb
   2. docker run -d --name my-couchdb -e COUCHDB_USER=admin -e COUCHDB_PASSWORD=password -p 5984:5984 couchdb
   3. docker ps

      CONTAINER ID        IMAGE               COMMAND                  CREATED             STATUS              PORTS                                        NAMES
      35c8c7264fa9        couchdb             "tini -- /docker-ent…"   6 seconds ago       Up 6 seconds        4369/tcp, 9100/tcp, 0.0.0.0:5984->5984/tcp   my-couchdb
      

2. Visit Futon localhost:5984/_utils/

3. Create users database locally

   

4. Configure replication

   

   Don't forget to add database name to the end of the URL.

   {
       "source" : "https://$USERNAME1:$PASSWORD1.example.com/db",
       "target" : "https://$USERNAME2:$PASSWORD2@$ACCOUNT2.cloudant.com/db",
   }
   

Event Description

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Join IBM Developer SF to get an introduction to Apache CouchDB - an open-source document-oriented database software that focuses on ease of use and having a scalable architecture.

A database in CouchDB is not a group of tables, but a collection of documents (JSON objects). We will use Cloudant, a hosted version on IBM Cloud, for the demo to avoid spending time installing locally.

We will look at how to create a simple CRUD application in CouchDB and then explore more advance features including:

1. Design Documents to transform, update and validate documents
2. Views to query documents using MapReduce
3. Mango Query Server to write JSON queries
4. HTTP API that makes CouchDB ideal for the web

Speaker: Upkar Lidder

Upkar Lidder is a Full Stack Developer and Data Wrangler with a decade of development experience in a variety of roles. He can be seen speaking at various conferences and participating in local tech groups and meetups. He is currently curious about the magic behind Machine Learning and Deep Learning, specifically use of NLP in chatbots. Upkar went to graduate school in Canada and currently resides in the United States.