# Apache CouchDB® 3.5.2 Documentation

Welcome! This is the documentation for Apache CouchDB® 3.5.2.

## Meet CouchDB

What's new in CouchDB 3.5? or browse all "What's new" documents Why CouchDB? why you might want to use CouchDB | Technical Overview a quick overview of technology used Eventual Consistency how CouchDB handles synchronization

## Getting started

Installation guides
install CouchDB on Windows, OS X or Linux

Tutorial
start using CouchDB with Fauxton and cURL

HTTP API overview
a short walk though the API

Clustering
setup and manage a cluster of nodes

Guide to Views
how to query documents with MapReduce

Mango Query Server
simple JSON CouchDB queries without MapReduce

Replication
painless master-master data synchronization

Design Documents
transform, update or validate your documents

## Reference Documentation & Advanced Topics

Complete HTTP API Reference something to come back to Configuration Reference tweak CouchDB to your liking | Maintenance how to take care of your CouchDB Partitioned Databases how to use Partitioned Databases in CouchDB

## Links

Download CouchDB HTTP API Quick Reference Configuration Quick Reference