CouchDB basics for PHP developers

Posted by solrac on Apr 6, 2010 6:58 PM EDT
IBM/developerWorks; By Thomas Myer
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If you're a typical PHP developer, it doesn't take a thorough review of past projects to pick out a telling pattern: In most (if not all) cases, you're probably getting PHP to talk to a database back end for all that dynamic data goodness; in 99 percent of those instances, you're using MySQL. Now, there's nothing wrong with using a relational database. If you're working with highly structured data with lots of relationships, it's the way to go. You can happily (or unhappily, depending on your familiarity and comfort with SQL) go through the process of working up schemas, normalizing data relations, setting up tables, and all the rest.

Take a look at CouchDB from a PHP developer's point of view, and learn how CouchDB gives you a document-based, schema-free, ad-hoc database with a flat address space. Learn how you can add CouchDB to your technical toolboxes to create and delete databases, work with CouchDB views, and more.

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