1. • April 2005 by Damien Katz (Worked in IBM)
• Started building in C++
• Great Database engine which is Useful in E-mail, Bug Tracking, Timesheet
Management, Blogs and RSS feeds
• Entirly moved from C++ to Erlang for CouchDB Development in Feb 06
• Developed by Ericsson
• used in Telecommunication industry
• April 2006 - announcement to be accessibe via http-based RESTful API
• First version 0.2 in Aug 2006 run only on Windows
• In August 2007 - Announcement to be in XML using JavaScript Object
Notation(JSON)
• Second version 0.7.0 in November 2007 with JavaScript featured and web-based
administration interface(later named Futon)
• Joined again in IBM to develop CouchDB
• CouchDB license changed to GPL to use Apache License
• It includes Map(using key:value)/Reduce(to reindex from last update) function.
• Third Version 0.8.0 released in june 2008
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• Fourth version 0.9.0 released in April 2009 which became a server like Apache,
Tomcat, etc
• Fifth version 0.9.1 released in July 2009
• Beta version 0.10.0 launched in October 2009