CouchDB @ Moneythor

<2013-12-06 Fri 13:00> speaker: Thibault, Moneythor event: hackers and painters

enhance online banking by categorizing and making personalized recommendations base on bank statements. main business is selling software to banks based on Java and RDBMS. https://www.moneythor.com/ used to test out ideas. ** document store *** schema free *** try out map/reduce *** second to mongo db on db-engines.com rankings ** couchDB *** restful json API *** nice admin web tool, futon *** master-master replication *** couchapps *** no query language, design views *** no bulk update, need to write your own scripts ** data model *** id *** rev unique to specific version, for conflict detection and replication ** views *** result of map/reduce ** transcations *** no being/end commit *** can set all or nothing flag to a single agreegate api call *** need to do all updates at the end to get transaction ** gotchas *** adding a field increases size of db by a lot can be reduced by compaction *** update a view may take a long time update on a different server, then switch over ** pros *** backup/restore is easy as files on disk are consistent