On the Couch

CouchDB offers numerous interesting features for acquisition and filtering of status messages that make it a fast and convenient data storage solution.

Oliver Kurowski

Whether the Internet of Things (IoT) or a server landscape, micro-services or cron jobs, applications produce all kinds of status messages that you need to collect and evaluate. Whether it’s an alert from the robot lawnmower, the abrupt termination of a long-running task, or simply a weather warning, storing the various messages centrally and evaluating them independent of their structure is always going to be a challenge (Listing 1). CouchDB can help with centralized acquisition and subsequent filtering of status messages (e.g., by number, hour, or source). Its main advantage, and one that it shares with other NoSQL databases, lies in the schema-free nature of the data. Each CouchDB dataset can have its own structure, as long as it can be mapped in JSON format. This freedom means that many…

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