Compressing (Gzip or Deflate) Shows, Lists and views in Couchdb

It seems that couchdb automatically compress all its _attachments when requested with the correct h开发者_开发知识库eader. But unfortunately this doesn't happen for views, show or lists.

Is there any way to achieve a compression before returning the result to the client?

Is using a third party library like deflatejs (didn't test it yet) a bad approach?

Thanks

You can certainly use js-deflate in show and list functions, but you cannot do it in view functions. I also suspect it would be inefficient (just a guess, test it if you want numbers).

Until CouchDB does not support gzip encoding, the easiest solution is to put a reverse proxy in front of CouchDB to do the compression. For example you can use nginx with the HttpGzipModule.

The Couchbase distribution of CouchDB (Couchbase Single Server) supports Google's snappy compression for the JSON files on disk. I believe the same goes for the views, but I'll have to defer to someone better qualified.