The Couchbase team supports a number of SDKs, also known as Couchbase client libraries. At the time of writing this book, there are official libraries for Java, .NET, PHP, Ruby, Python, C, and Node.js. There are also community-supported libraries for Perl, Erlang, Go, and other platforms.

In this chapter, we'll explore a few of these clients. You should install the library for the platform with which you are most comfortable. Many of the clients are available through package managers such as .NET's NuGet or Python's pip. Visit http://www.couchbase.com/communities to find instructions about installation. Each community has a Getting Started guide that details how to obtain your chosen SDK, as shown next:

Getting a client up and running in your environment of choice is beyond the scope of this chapter. If you wish to follow along with the examples, then you should run through the Getting Started tutorial for your platform. In the final chapter, we'll work through building...