Erlang, CouchBase, merging with Membase (Changelog Interviews #54)

Wynn sat down with Chris Anderson from CouchBase to talk about CouchDB, the merger with Membase, Erlang, and bringing NoSQL to PHPers.

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Featuring:

• Chris Anderson – GitHub, X
• Wynn Netherland – GitHub, X

Show Notes:

• Chris Anderson is a Couchbase cofounder, Mobile Architect, CouchDB committer, new dad
• The CouchDB music video (served up from CouchDB no less)
• Chris sings the official CouchDB theme song to kick off Episode 0.1.8
• Apache CouchDb is a distributed, fault-tolerant and schema-free document-oriented database accessible via a RESTful HTTP/JSON API.
• Damien Katz is the creator of CouchDB.
• CouchBase was formed from merging Membase and CouchOne
• Chris is one of the rare CFOs with a GitHub account
• CouchBase makes the case for NoSQL
• Membase Server currently uses Sqlite under the hood, but will be swapped out for Couch’s storage engine soon
• Mobile Couchbase runs on iOS and brings Couch to your mobile device
• CouchApps are JavaScript and HTML5 applications served directly from CouchDB.
• Zynga makers of Farmville use Membase
• The CouchApp toolkit is now maintained by Benoît Chesneau
• Aaron Miller led the charge to get Erlang on iOS, changing dynamic linking to static linking.
• SpiderMonkey was included iOS for CouchMobile and its JIT compiler made it preferable to V8 or Nitro for Couch tasks.
• GeoCouch adds geospatial features to CouchDB
• Chris outlines the distinctives for Couch’s incremental Map/Reduce
• Jason Smith in Thailand keeps the lights on for CouchBase hosting solutions
• Cloudant offers hosting for Couch in the cloud
• Wynn wants to see integration for CouchBase and Appcelerator Titanium
• Todd Anderson has a great tutorial on using jQuery mobile and CouchDB
• Damien Katz is Chris’ programming hero
• Chris says working with Jan Lehnardt is a blast
• Be sure and check out CouchDB - The Definitive Guide by Chris, Jan, and Noah

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