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User Guides

  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Replication
  • 3. Design Documents
  • 4. Best Practices
    • 4.1. Document Design Considerations
    • 4.2. Document submission using HTML Forms
    • 4.3. Using an ISO Formatted Date for Document IDs
    • 4.4. JavaScript development tips
    • 4.5. View recommendations
    • 4.6. Reverse Proxies

Administration Guides

  • 1. Installation
  • 2. Setup
  • 3. Configuration
  • 4. Cluster Management
  • 5. Maintenance
  • 6. Fauxton
  • 7. Experimental Features

Reference Guides

  • 1. API Reference
  • 2. JSON Structure Reference
  • 3. Query Server
  • 4. Partitioned Databases

Other

  • 1. Release Notes
  • 2. Security Issues / CVEs
  • 3. Reporting New Security Problems with Apache CouchDB
  • 4. License
  • 5. Contributing to this Documentation

Quick Reference Guides

  • API Quick Reference
  • Configuration Quick Reference

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4. Best Practices¶

In this chapter, we present some of the best ways to use Apache CouchDB. These usage patterns reflect many years of real-world use. We hope that these will jump-start your next project, or improve the performance of your current system.

  • 4.1. Document Design Considerations
    • 4.1.1. Don’t rely on CouchDB’s auto-UUID generation
    • 4.1.2. Alternatives to auto-incrementing sequences
    • 4.1.3. Pre-aggregating your data
    • 4.1.4. Designing an application to work with replication
    • 4.1.5. Adding client-side security with a translucent database
  • 4.2. Document submission using HTML Forms
    • 4.2.1. The HTML form
    • 4.2.2. The update function
    • 4.2.3. Example output
  • 4.3. Using an ISO Formatted Date for Document IDs
  • 4.4. JavaScript development tips
  • 4.5. View recommendations
    • 4.5.1. Deploying a view change in a live environment
  • 4.6. Reverse Proxies
    • 4.6.1. Reverse proxying with HAProxy
    • 4.6.2. Reverse proxying with nginx
    • 4.6.3. Reverse Proxying with Caddy 2
    • 4.6.4. Reverse Proxying with Apache HTTP Server
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