11. Cluster Reference

As of 2.0 CouchDB now have two modes of operations:

• Standalone
• Cluster

This part of the documentation is about setting up and maintain a CouchDB cluster.

• 11.1. Set Up
  • 11.1.1. Firewall
  • 11.1.2. The Cluster Setup Wizard
  • 11.1.3. The Cluster Setup API
• 11.2. Theory
• 11.3. Node Management
  • 11.3.1. Adding a node
  • 11.3.2. Removing a node
• 11.4. Database Management
  • 11.4.1. Creating a database
  • 11.4.2. Deleting a database
  • 11.4.3. Placing a database on specific nodes
• 11.5. Sharding
  • 11.5.1. Scaling out
  • 11.5.2. Moving Shards
  • 11.5.3. Views
  • 11.5.4. Reshard? No, Preshard!