Database Queries the CouchDB WayCouchDB is a document-oriented database. It has no rows or tables. Instead CouchDB is a collection of JSON documents. It uses a map-reduce pattern to index data. Queries in CouchDB pull data from what are essentially stored procedures called views. A view is made up of a map function and optionally a reduce function. Ninety percent of the time all you need is the map function, so I will focus on m
