A (XPages) developers guide to Cloudant

Frank van der Linden

NoSQL databases getting more popular recently, especially MongoDb. But there is another popular NoSQL, Cloudant. It is the cloud version of CouchDb. Cloudant has lots of similarities with good old NSF, but a lot faster.
We have build a web based application which stores it data in Cloudant and use the XPages runtime to display the data.
I want to share my experiences when developing this application, by setting up the Cloudant database, add search indexes, perform the common CRUD operations, search for specific data. I will also show more about my Cloudant connector OSGi plugin which is used heavily in this project.
In the end you will only use the XPages/Java design elements in the NSF for the Front end