1.9. Nouveau Server Installation

Added in version 3.4.0.

CouchDB can build and query full-text search indexes using an external Java service that embeds Apache Lucene. Typically, this service is installed on the same host as CouchDB and communicates with it over the loopback network.

Nouveau server is runtime-compatible with Java 11 or higher.

1.9.1. Enable Nouveau

You need to enable nouveau in CouchDB configuration;

[nouveau]
enable = true

1.9.2. Installation of Binary Packages

The Java side of nouveau is a set of jar files, one for nouveau itself and the rest for dependencies (like Lucene and Dropwizard).

To start the nouveau server:

java -jar /path/to/nouveau.jar server /path/to/nouveau.yaml

Ensure that all the jar files from the release are in the same directory as nouveau.jar

We ship a basic nouveau.yaml configuration with useful defaults; see that file for details.

nouveau.yaml:

maxIndexesOpen: 100
commitIntervalSeconds: 30
idleSeconds: 60
rootDir: target/indexes

As a DropWizard project you can also use the many configuration options that it supports. See configuration reference.

By default Nouveau will attempt a clean shutdown if sent a TERM signal, committing any outstanding index updates, completing any in-progress segment merges, and finally closes all indexes. This is not essential and you may safely kill the JVM without letting it do this, though any uncommitted changes are necessarily lost. Once the JVM is started again this indexing work will be attempted again.