goydb, a couchdb compatible embeddable database written in go

Getting started (not embedded)

Using docker

mkdir data
docker run -e GOYDB_ADMINS=admin:test -v data:/usr/local/var/goydb -p 7070:7070 goydb/goydb:latest

From source (go get)

go get github.com/goydb/goydb/cmd/goydb
mkdir public
mkdir dbs
goydb

From source (git)

mkdir public
mkdir dbs
go run ./cmd/goydb

Getting started with embedded version

package main

import (
	"log"
	"net/http"

	"github.com/goydb/goydb/pkg/goydb"
)

func main() {
	// create new database default config
	cfg, err := goydb.NewConfig()
	if err != nil { 
		log.Fatal(err)
	}

	// create new database
	gdb, err := cfg.BuildDatabase()
	if err != nil {
		log.Fatal(err)
	}

	// expose http api
	err = http.ListenAndServe(cfg.ListenAddress, gdb.Handler)
	if err != nil {
		log.Fatal(err)
	}
}

Fauxton UI

Add fauxton container to the router.

import (
	"github.com/goydb/goydb/pkg/public"
	"github.com/goydb/utils"
)

...
cfg.Containers = []public.Container{
	utils.Fauxton{},
}
...

Is this production-ready?

No.

See another example at the cmd/goydb/main.go.

But why?

First, couchdb is awesome. This implementation is not aiming to replace couchdb. It just another part of the ecosystem, similar to PouchDB.

The aim is to be able to build golang apps with integrated couchdb technology. That means similar to pouchdb, integrate deeply with golang but enable sync to couchdb.

Couchdb has the right principles at its heart:

• REST
• HTTP
• Map Reduce
• JSON
• Replication
• Attachments
• Mango

Things that are differert from couchdb:

• Performance due to direct access to the database using golang apis (WIP)
• Attachment not part of the document storage but saved as regular files on disk next to the documents (WIP)
• Search is part of the main storage using https://github.com/blevesearch/bleve (WIP)

Things that I want to experiment with:

• Validation / Schema
  • Allow json schema based validation
• HTTP
  • Automatic OpenAPI specification
  • GraphQL support
  • Allow PATCH
  • Allow mango for update of documents
  • HTTP API for queues e.g. /{db}/_queue/{msg}
  • http vhost and proxies (https://github.com/goydb/vhost)
• Rendering via
  • go templates
  • jq
• Formats allow direct support for
  • yaml
  • bson
• Backup
  • PIT backup
    • dump/restore via http
• Instrumentation first class metrics support
• Security
  • add document based security (see https://github.com/apache/couchdb/issues/1524)
  • full jwt and oauth2 support