How about setting RAM as a drive and running couchdb with this as a dir of data?
You can install a disk with disk storage as:
$ mkdir -p /tmp/couchdb
$ sudo mount -t tmpfs tmpfs -o size=2G /tmp/couchdb
And change the couchdb configuration file to store data in this directory.
[couchdb]
database_dir = /tmp/couchdb
view_index_dir = /tmp/couchdb
Launch couchdb and relax!