Getting Started With CouchDB NoSQL Database on Mac OS X Step-by-Step Easy Guide

The Guide shows you Step-by-Step How to Getting-Started Quickly with the Latest CouchDB NoSQL Database Stable/Development Release for macOS 32/64-bit.

CouchDB Characteristics:

• Ad Document Database Server, accessible via a RESTful JSON API
• Ad-hoc and Schema-Free with a Flat address space
• Distributed, featuring robust, incremental Replication with bi-directional conflict detection and management
• Query-able and Index-able, featuring a table oriented reporting engine that uses JavaScript as Query Language.

If you didn’t yet Dispose of a Working CouchDB Installation then Look to Guide on Installing for macOS.

1. How to Install CouchDB on macOS

   Mac CouchDB Installation

   The Link Contains Detailed Step-by-Step Guide to Install the CouchDB Database on macOS

Open Terminal Shell

2. Starting CouchDB Server

   sudo su -c "couchdb -b"

3. Test Connection to CouchDB

   curl http://127.0.0.1:5984/

4. Get CouchDB Databases List

   curl -X GET http://localhost:5984/_all_dbs

5. Create a CouchDB Database

   curl -X PUT http://localhost:5984/test-db

6. Show Up New Database Info

   curl -X GET http://localhost:5984/test-db

7. Inserting a Document in Database

   curl -X POST -H "Content-Type:application/json" -d '{"type":"users", "name":"mySelf", "location":"Here:)"}' http://localhost:5984/test-db

   The Output Show the Document ID to Use for Query the Database Below…

8. Retriving a Document from Database

   curl -X GET http://localhost:5984/test-db/<a1b2c3d4...> | python -mjson.tool

9. Getting-Started with Fauxton CouchDB Admin Console

   Futon Admin Tutorial

   The Link Contains Quick Start Tut for CouchDB Administration with Fauxton Tool