Apache CouchDB

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Document database with HTTP/JSON APIs and built-in multi-master replication — sync data between servers and devices.

Runs	couchdb:3.5.3
Stack	database
Provisioned for it	Nothing, it's self-contained
Verified	Not yet

Why deploy on Railyard

Railyard runs it standalone on a server you already pay for — no addons to provision, with zero-downtime deploys and scaling still included.

Deploying Apache CouchDB is one piece of a bigger stack you can keep building — add a database, a worker, a cache, or another app, all on the same servers you already pay for.

Good for

A document database with a native HTTP/JSON API and no separate query language to learn
Multi-master replication to sync data between servers, or out to offline-first mobile/desktop apps (PouchDB)
An events/changes-feed-driven backend using CouchDB's built-in _changes API

Good to know

The official image doesn't create CouchDB's system databases automatically — after the first deploy, run `curl -X PUT $RAILYARD_URL/_users`, `.../_replicator`, and `.../_global_changes` with your admin credentials once, or CouchDB will log errors about missing system databases

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