So, in the last post I gave an introduction to the concepts behind CouchDB and other document store systems. For this post, I had intended to overview compiling on both Mac OS X and Ubuntu 9.10 Beta. However, on the Mac front, it turned out there was already project with a nicely cooked binary that would be significantly easier to install, and, let's face it, just more Steve Jobs than compiling from source. If you are running Mac OS X Leopard (10.5), you can download the CouchDBX binary here.

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So, as per the advice of my friend Yuce, I have begun blogging about various types of software, technology, and whatever else I see fit to project onto the masses. I decided to start with a recent "crush", CouchDB. Relational databases are simple. Anyone with experience using spreadsheet software understands the basic functionality - a series of rows conforming to a specific, pre-defined series of columns and data types. A lot of data can be easily organized in this manner. Most data can be roughly shoved into it. However, ubiquitous does not necessarily mean appropriate.

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