The Geek Stuff posted a guide about installing Apache CouchDB on CentOS 6

Just like the name suggest it is a database. CouchDB is a NoSQL database. NoSQL databases doesn’t have any schema, tables, etc, that you’ll typically see in a traditional databases like Oracle or MySQL. The data in CouchDB are stored as JSON document, which you can access from a web browser using HTTP.

This article explains how to install CouchDB on RHEL based systems. For example, CentOS, Red Hat, Oracle Enterprise Linux, etc.

  How to Install Apache CouchDB on CentOS 6 (from Source and EPEL)