Getting Up to Speed with CouchDB and Java ☞

Nothing fancy, but if you haven’t done it already, this article will probably get you started in no time.

This article provides a step-by-step guide for using Apache CouchDB using Java. Here we will use Java code to:

• Create a database in CouchDB,
• Store employee data (Employee number, Name, Designation, etc).
• Perform some CRUD operations on the data that is stored.
• Show the use of “Views” and how it can retrieve data based on field values.

The software we use includes:

• Apache CouchDB 0.9.0 installation
• Couchdb4j-0.1.2 jar file
• Json-lib-2.2.3-jdk15 jar file
• ezmorph-1.0 jar file
• Httpclient-4.0-beta2 jar file
• Httpcore-4.0.1 jar file

Please note the current CouchDB version is 0.10.1, so you might want to try with this version instead of the one mentioned in the article.