CouchDB is one of the most popular and mature document-oriented databases.

Relax

You’ll often see the word “relax” associated with CouchDB. That’s because CouchDB tries to solve a lot of the “hard problems” associated with building a scalable distributed document-oriented database. It does a lot of heavy lifting for you so that you can focus on building your application without worrying too much about administration or weird corner cases.

CouchDB also sports a very simple and easy to understand RESTful API. This should make for a very low barrier to entry and stress-free development. As we progress through the process of using CouchDB,