Build internal tools with CouchDB
Retool makes it easy to build admin panels, dashboards, and utilities on top of your CouchDB data.
Connecting Retool to CouchDB takes just a few minutes, and lets you to quickly build internal tools like admin panels on top of your CouchDB data. Paste in a connection string, whitelist the Retool IP, and you’re ready to start building.
Working with CouchDB is easy in Retool: you can pull in comments for moderation into a Table component, mark them as approved with a Button, and write the new data back to your DB with .update.
Retool gives you a simple GUI for .get , .insert, .delete, .update, .find, and .getView. We support reading from and writing to your CouchDB data: check out our CouchDB docs here.
Henrique Dubugras
CEO at Brex
Retool has been critical for our ops from the start, and is the reason we’re able to scale so quickly. Anything operations or sales wants is built instantly in Retool, instead of in weeks with actual code. And the on-prem version with access controls + audit logs makes it easy to meet our compliance requirements.
Supported operations for CouchDB
Read documentationRead a record
Use .get to get a document by ID
Find a record
Run a .find query to find a document
Insert a record
Add a new record with .insert
Update a record
Update an existing record with .update
Delete a record
Use .delete to delete a record
Get a view
Retrieve a stored view with .getView
What you can build with Retool
View all templatesIn Retool, you can join CouchDB with anything
Retool connects to most databases and nearly anything with a REST or GraphQL API. Read in data from mongoDB, join it via SQL, record user approvals, and POST the result to Stripe to create invoices.
Retool empowers you to work with all of your data sources inside of a single app.
