The CouchDB feature spotlights you’ve been anticipating
Catch our top picks for Apache CouchDB feature deep-dives, the latest user survey, events from the CouchDB and FOSS ecosystem and ways to get more involved with the PouchDB’s development.
Hello!
Inbox still filling up with personal wraps of 2025? We have good news: there’ll be none of that here! We’re focusing on community achievements and shared successes 🙌
In store we have CouchDB feature spotlights and the events shaping FOSS.
2025–2026 Annual Apache CouchDB™ User Survey
The time to share your CouchDB feedback has swung around again — please share it far and wide, we can’t wait to read from you.
📝 Take part — we’re so curious about what you have to say!
The form will be open until the end of February. Responses will be anonymised and shared, so if you’re wondering what other CouchDB users are thinking, you’ll get a chance to scratch the itch.
Do More With Less Hardware in 2026
Like you, we’re anticipating the cost of hardware components to fluctuate (read: get more expensive).
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Book A Once-Off CouchDB Architecture ReviewNew CouchDB User Stories
In the last survey nearly 40% of you indicated you want more user stories! Here are the two most recent additions to hit the blog:
- Offline-First Knowledge Management: How CouchDB Powers zettel.io — Simon Lucy shares how CouchDB document features made it a natural and incredible robust fit.
- Automated Fishing Reports: The Charter & Haul App with Offline Sync — check out the CouchDB + PouchDB mobile app that helps vessels stay compliant automatically.
Be sure to use the User Story tag to find more.
Want an easier way to achieve the power of SQL queries in CouchDB?
Structured Query Server (SQS) is the tool you’ve been looking for! Let us take the ache out of maintaining a second relational database.
“With SQS I can select a subset of attributes from my documents, making queries faster and lighter while still retaining richer data in the background. Honestly, I couldn’t think of an easier way — SQS makes the whole process remarkably simple.”
Pedro León | Strïngs
Neighbourhoodie Updates
2.5 Years of STA Bug Resilience: how we helped a lot of FOSS (Jan Lehnardt)
🗓️ FOSS Backstage on Monday, March 16th 2026 at 12:10pm in Berlin, Germany
Get a feel for the big-picture impact of our STA partnership: don’t miss our talk on the conference security track.
Local-First Events
- We met many of you at the first ever FOSDEM devroom for Local First, sync engines & CRDTs — thank you for making it a memorable event! A big thanks to FOSDEM for recording our session in case you missed it.
- The 2026 edition of Local-First Conf has been announced. Watch this space to see how we get involved.
STA Contributions
Through 2025 we continued our work with the Sovereign Tech Agency. As an implementation partner in the Tech Resilience program — which is still accepting proposals — we’re in a position to help a very wide variety of FOSS projects take the next steps in their resiliency journey. Take a look:
We’re also officially underway with S02! We don’t want to spoil anything, so check back in later for our adventures in Rust and more.
From the Blog
We have a lot of new stuff to read on the blog. We know feature spotlights are your favourites — here are our picks:
Want to get More Involved?
You can be a part of the volunteer team that brings CouchDB and PouchDB to the world!
From beginner CouchDB contributions to sharing your story, we would love to count on your help!
Join our bi-weekly PouchDB triage sessions, next happening:
- February 9, 2026 from 8-9am UTC
- February 16, 2026 from 3-4pm UTC
- March 2, 2026 from 8-9am UTC
That’s It For Now
Thank you for reading! We know it’s been a while since we graced your inbox, and we look forward to visiting you here again before too long 👋
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