# How to read records from couchdb view

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**Category:** REST API\
**Created:** [November 12, 2015, 5:29pm UTC](https://community.dreamfactory.com/t/how-to-read-records-from-couchdb-view/1762 "2015-11-12T17:29:43Z")\
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That’s correct, SQL-like filters are not available for CouchDB. How familiar are you with CouchDB? This DB implements a query language in documents called views. So we didn’t attempt to implement SQL queries for CouchDB since Apache did it their own way in-house.

[Tutorial on CouchDB views](http://guide.couchdb.org/draft/views.html)  
[Apache documentation on views](https://wiki.apache.org/couchdb/Introduction_to_CouchDB_views)

Search the forums also. This was already covered in [this thread](https://community.dreamfactory.com/t/no-couchdb-filter-parameter/1287?u=jeffreystables).

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