The NoSQL movement is starting to infiltrate its way into the Microsoft .NET Developer Community. Lots of .NET Developers looking at alternate database solutions to SQL for building highly scalable websites. One such alternates is CouchDB.
According to the CouchDB Website:
"Apache CouchDB is a document-oriented database that can be queried and indexed in a MapReduce fashion using JavaScript. CouchDB also offers incremental replication with bi-directional conflict detection and resolution.
CouchDB provides a RESTful JSON API than can be accessed from any environment that allows HTTP requests. There are myriad third-party client libraries that make this even easier from your programming language of choice. CouchDB’s built in Web administration console speaks directly to the database using HTTP requests issued from your browser."
For those new to NoSQL and document databases like CouchDB, the European VAN recently had a presentation on CouchDB that will give you a good understanding of CouchDB and how it works.
Check out the CouchDB Video here.