JQ - format JSON array appending values to a specific a value - json

Question

I am trying to get this:
[
["John Black",[
["Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.",27],
["Ut tempus lectus ut mi.",23]
]],
["Peter Pan",[
["Quisque pulvinar odio.",22],
["Nec ut lorem quis interdum elit.",32]
]],
["Gary Halbert",[
["Placerat aliquam.",17]
]],
["Richard Gere",[
["Porttitor commodo fermentum.",28]
]]
]
Till now, this is what I got:
export A=$(cat <<'EOL'
[
["John Black",["Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.",27]],
["Peter Pan",["Quisque pulvinar odio.",22]],
["John Black",["Ut tempus lectus ut mi.",23]],
["Gary Halbert",["Placerat aliquam.",17]],
["Peter Pan",["Nec ut lorem quis interdum elit.",32]],
["Richard Gere",["Porttitor commodo fermentum.",28]]
]
EOL
)
echo "$A" | jq 'map({(.[0]): .[1]}) | add'
Resulting this:
{
"John Black": [
"Ut tempus lectus ut mi.",
23
],
"Peter Pan": [
"Nec ut lorem quis interdum elit.",
32
],
"Gary Halbert": [
"Placerat aliquam.",
17
],
"Richard Gere": [
"Porttitor commodo fermentum.",
28
]
}
I am using jq-1.5.
Any ideas? Thanks.

Answer 1

This is an appropriate use case for a reducer. Most of the below is related not to joining items under shared keys, but to getting them into the desired nested-list form:
jq -n '[
inputs |
reduce .[] as $item ({}; .[$item[0]] += [$item[1]]) |
to_entries |
.[] |
[.key, .value]
]' <<<"$A"
...yields as output (edited only for compactness with regard to whitespace):
[
["John Black", [["Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.", 27], ["Ut tempus lectus ut mi.",23]]],
["Peter Pan", [["Quisque pulvinar odio.",22], ["Nec ut lorem quis interdum elit.", 32]]],
["Gary Halbert", [["Placerat aliquam.", 17]]],
["Richard Gere", [["Porttitor commodo fermentum.", 28]]]
]

Answer 2

the Couchdb engine is append only, it means that each document will append into a file manager by Couchdb, and each file is related to a db.
to use properly think how to avoid updates in the same document, remember all revisions will be storage.
my suggestion for each document.
{
"name": "John Black",
"entries": [
{
"test": "Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.",
"value": 27
},
{
"text": "Ut tempus lectus ut mi.",
"value": 23
}
],
"type": "user"
}