A built-in web-based administration console for apache couchdb. All read / write operation is handled using http request via couchdb restful api.
Typically the url is like :-
http://localhost:5984/_utils/
Basic functionality of futon :-
- create or delete databases
- manage individual couchdb documents (analogous to records)
- testing of map-reduce function
- monitor couchdb running tasks
- create views