Application of document-oriented NoSQL database technology in web-based software project documents management system

In the development of software project system architectures, software programmers, product test engineers and clients who may be distributed over the world need good communication and collaboration. They require easy access to necessary data and sharing of relevant documents of the project which are distributed in a network of resources and users. Hence, web-based applications, decentralized repositories and databases are needed to store and manage project and process development information. However relational databases work poorly in performance, scalability and reliability while processing large amounts of big data spread out across many servers. This paper works for managing software project documents in an Internet-based collaborative environment using NoSQL database technology. The research work focus on the development of a web-based application using Apache CouchDB which is an open source document-oriented database with REST web services interface. The proposed application is described and the main functionalities are illustrated through the examples of use.