Today we will show you, how to install Apache CouchDB on CentOS 7. CouchDB is an open-source database, and was first released in 2005 and later became an Apache Software Foundation project in 2008. It has a document-oriented NoSQL database architecture and is implemented in the concurrency-oriented language Erlang; it uses JSON to store data, JavaScript as its query language using MapReduce, and HTTP for an API. The data can be accessed via web browser. Looks simple, right? Installing Apache CouchDB on CentOS 7 is pretty simply, in fact, you can install CouchDB in just a few minutes using the package manager on your Linux server. Let’s get started!