Hi Alex,
Good question. Internally, Riak treats the document as one large blob. There
is currently no way to update only a single field independently of the other
fields.
Best,
Rusty
On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 3:39 PM, Alex Dong <a...@avos.com> wrote:
> Hi list,
>
> We're evaluating the riak search to see whether we can replace our solr
> cluster with riak search. I'm wondering whether it's possible to update
> only specified field for a given document.
>
> Here is the use case. For each document, we have a field called "users"
> which is a whitespace separated list of integer user ids. The doc might look
> like this:
>
> {
> doc_id: 182,
> title: 'Riak search explained',
> url: '
> http://basho.com/blog/technical/2011/05/09/Riak-Search-Explained/',
> users: 1 23 32 1998
> }
>
> This enables us to do a global search as well as scoped searches by
> specifying only documents coming out from one or a few users. Like this
>
> /?q="Riak+search"
> /?q="Riak+search"+users:1
> /?q="Riak+search"+users:1+users:1998
>
> In solr, one has to reindex the whole document everytime a new user needs
> to be added to it. This has brought some unnecessary burden to the indexer
> for super popular documents.
>
> Now with Riak's search infrastructure, I'm wondering how easy it is to
> support "update only one field"?
>
> Best,
> Alex
>
>
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