CouchDB Statistics

This is a CouchDB backend for the core Statistics module

Latest release: 8.x-1.x-dev

- Requires patch from #1446932: Improve statistics performance by adding a swappable backend
- Only implements recordHit and fetchViews method
- Day count doesn't reset
- "Popular content" block won't work

Install

1. Install via composer or use Composer Manager
2. Update services.yml. Add:

     services:
       statistics.statistics_storage:
         alias: couchdb.statistics_storage
     

3. Update settings.php. Example:

     $settings['couchdb'] = array(
       'dbname' => 'couchdb',
       'type' => 'socket',
       'host' => 'localhost',
       'port' => 5984,
       'user' => null,
       'password' => null,
       'ip' => null,
       'logging' => 'false',
     );
   

It works!

Testing

You can get a free hosted CouchDB database from Iris Couch for testing.