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| .. _intro: |
| |
| ============ |
| Introduction |
| ============ |
| |
| CouchDB is a database that completely embraces the web. Store your data with |
| JSON documents. Access your documents with your web browser, :ref:`via HTTP |
| <api/basics>`. :ref:`Query <api/doc>`, :ref:`combine <views>`, and |
| :ref:`transform <listfun>` your documents with :ref:`JavaScript |
| <query-server/js>`. CouchDB works well with modern web and mobile apps. You |
| can distribute your data, efficiently using CouchDB’s :ref:`incremental |
| replication <replication/intro>`. CouchDB supports master-master setups with |
| :ref:`automatic conflict <replication/conflicts>` detection. |
| |
| CouchDB comes with a suite of features, such as on-the-fly document |
| transformation and real-time :ref:`change notifications <changes>`, that make |
| web development a breeze. It even comes with an easy to use web administration |
| console, served directly out of CouchDB! We care a lot about `distributed |
| scaling`_. CouchDB is highly available and partition tolerant, but is also |
| :ref:`eventually consistent <intro/consistency>`. And we care *a lot* about |
| your data. CouchDB has a fault-tolerant storage engine that puts the safety |
| of your data first. |
| |
| In this section you'll learn about every basic bit of CouchDB, see upon what |
| conceptions and technologies it built and walk through short tutorial that |
| teach how to use CouchDB. |
| |
| .. _distributed scaling: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAP_theorem |
| |
| .. toctree:: |
| :maxdepth: 2 |
| |
| overview |
| why |
| consistency |
| curl |
| security |
| tour |
| api |