couchgenerator

A simple CouchDB data generation tool. Generates a stream of user document inserts, updates and deletes to a nominated database. A random batch size is chosen. Approximately 5% of the batch will be updates, 5% deletes and 90% inserts.

Handy if you're testing a CouchDB changes feed.

Installation

You'll need Node.js & npm. Then run:

npm install -g couchgenerator

Usage

couchgenerator needs to know your CouchDB URL (including access credentials) and the database name you want to write to. They can be supplied either by environment variables of command-line parameters or a mix of both.

Command-line parameters

• --url/-u - the URL of the CouchDB instance e.g. http://admin:mypassword@localhost:5984
• --database/--db/-d - the name of the database to write to e.g. users
• --template/-t - the path of template file e.g. ./mytemplate/products.json

couchgenerator --url 'http://admin:mypassword@localhost:5984' --db users
2022-05-27T12:53:08.896Z { inserts: 295, updates: 0, deletes: 0, ops: 295 }
2022-05-27T12:53:10.001Z { inserts: 247, updates: 10, deletes: 16, ops: 568 }
2022-05-27T12:53:11.134Z { inserts: 331, updates: 21, deletes: 14, ops: 934 }

Environment variables

• COUCH_URL
• COUCH_DATABASE

export COUCH_URL='http://admin:mypassword@localhost:5984'
couchgenerator --db users
2022-05-27T12:53:08.896Z { inserts: 295, updates: 0, deletes: 0, ops: 295 }
2022-05-27T12:53:10.001Z { inserts: 247, updates: 10, deletes: 16, ops: 568 }
2022-05-27T12:53:11.134Z { inserts: 331, updates: 21, deletes: 14, ops: 934 }

Programmatic usage

const couchgenerator = require('couchgenerator')
await couchgenerator({ url: MYURL, db: MYDB, template: './mytemplate.txt' })

Using a custom document template

By default, couchgenerator creates documents that look like users. If you want to fill a database with other data types, then simply create a template file template.txt:

{
  "_id": "{{uuid}}",
  "name": "{{name}}",
  "email": "{{email}}"
}

and pass the path to the file as the --template parameter:

couchgenerate --db products --template './path/to/template.txt'

The tags you can use to generate data values are listed in the datamaker README.