I am using Riak using the Erlang Client API (PB) and I was storing my documents as JSON and then converting them to records when I pull them out of Riak, but I got to thinking that maybe this isn't the greatest approach. I'm thinking that maybe it's better to store documents just as the record itself (Erlang binary) and then just converting the binary back to the record when I pull them from Riak. I was wondering what the pros/cons are to this approach. Here's my list so far:
Pros: Native Erlang is stored, so less time to convert to the record Better support for nested records Smaller storage requirements and hence faster on the wire (?) Cons: Not readable through Rekon (or other utils) without modification Can't use standard M/R functions which analyze the document (have to write all custom functions using Erlang) Not portable across languages Thanks, Andrew
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