Release: CouchDB 1.0 Finally Here
Even if one of the oldest NoSQL databases around, CouchDB is releasing the 1.0 version just now. But don’t let the version fool you: CouchDB has been run in production for quite a while as certified by some of the usages we’ve covered [1]
. In this regard, CouchDB story is somehow similar to that of Neo4j 1.0 release.
While in feature freeze after the previous version, CouchDB 0.11.0, CouchDB 1.0 is bringing in a couple of goodies:
- improved performance of writes for large documents
- an authentification system
- advanced replication options
Not to mention that with this release, CouchDB will be available on Windows OS. If you haven’t upgraded in a while, here is a list of new features. You should also check the getting ready guide.
The new version is not yet listed on the ☞ CouchDB project download page[2]
, but you can get the Mac OS X and source distributions from ☞ here [3]
.
And if you needed an additional reason to celebrate, Couch.io, the company behind CouchDB, is offering free, no-fuss CouchDB hosting.
Congrats to the CouchDB team!
- There are also some CouchDB usecases we’ve gathered. (↩)
- There are quite a few PR announcements out there though. (↩)
- At the time this post was published I couldn’t find the Windows distribution, but I assume it will be available soon. (↩)
