Ok, cool.  Thanks for the example!

On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 3:51 PM, Aphyr <ap...@aphyr.com> wrote:

> I suppose if you had a really small number of keys in Riak it might be
> faster, but you're almost certainly better off maintaining a second object
> and making the lookup constant time. Here's an example:
>
> https://github.com/aphyr/risky/blob/master/lib/risky/indexes.rb
>
> --Kyle
>
>
> On 05/05/2011 03:49 PM, Andrew Berman wrote:
>
>> Ah, that makes sense.  So is it the case that using the link
>> implementation will always be faster?  Or are there cases where it makes
>> more sense to use a key filter?
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> --Andrew
>>
>> On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 3:44 PM, Aphyr <ap...@aphyr.com
>> <mailto:ap...@aphyr.com>> wrote:
>>
>>    The key filter still has to walk the entire keyspace, which will
>>    make fetches an O(n) operation as opposed to O(1).
>>
>>    --Kyle
>>
>>
>>    On 05/05/2011 03:35 PM, Andrew Berman wrote:
>>
>>        I was curious if anyone has any thoughts on what is more
>> performant,
>>        links or key filters in terms of secondary links.  For example:
>>
>>        I want to be able to look up a user by id and email:
>>
>>        *Link implementation:*
>>
>>        Two buckets: user and user_email, where id is the key of user
>>        and email
>>        is the key of user_email.  User_email contains no data but
>>        simply has a
>>        link pointing back to the proper user.
>>
>>        *Key Filter:*
>>
>>        One bucket: user, where id_email is the key of the bucket.  Lookups
>>        would use a key filter tokenizing the id and then looking up the
>>        id or
>>        email based on the proper token.
>>
>>        Obviously both work, but I'm curious what the implications are
>>        from a
>>        performance standpoint.
>>
>>        Thanks,
>>
>>        Andrew
>>
>>
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