CouchDB is a great little NoSQL document store. Like many other NoSQL solutions, it uses Javascript for it's map-reduce / view code. Couch takes thing further by allowing you to create full blown applications directly in the database -- written in Javascript of course. It also integrates with nodejs quite nicely.
Mark Headd is an experienced voice, mobile and web application developer who works as a Developer Evangelist for Voxeo Labs, where he helps other developers build open government and civic applications using the Tropo and Phono platforms.
Mark has built open source solutions using open government data and APIs for cities and states across the country, including TweetMy311 - a ;CouchDB based application that is currently live in the City of San Francisco (and will soon be launched in other cities like Boston and the District of Columbia). TweetMy311 makes it easy to submit 311 service requests using a smart phone and Twitter. It’s designed to work with the Open311 API being deployed by cities in the United States and Canada. Mark has also worked on CouchDB-based solutions for the cities of Baltimore and Philadelphia.
Mark has used CouchDB to build all sorts of mobile and phone-based applications, and writes about it on his and other blogs.
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