On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 3:42 PM, Adrien Mogenet <adrien.moge...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi there, > > From this Riak Search's > page (http://wiki.basho.com/MapReduce-Search-2i-Comparison.html) : > > Poor Use Case: > > Searching for common (low cardinality) terms in documents > > I agree that searching for common terms in Riak Search is a really poor use > case (and not only in RS), but shouldn't we speak about "high cardinality" ? > > As far as I know, cardinality is a mathematical concept that defines the > "size" of a set. Did I misunderstand it ? > > By the way, what is a "great cardinality" according to Riak Search ? 10 ? > 100 ? 1000 ? ... >
In database terms it's not the SIZE so much as the count of distinct values. Does that help? As far as "great cardinality", I have no idea off hand what that would be. > > -- > Adrien > > > _______________________________________________ > riak-users mailing list > riak-users@lists.basho.com > http://lists.basho.com/mailman/listinfo/riak-users_lists.basho.com > _______________________________________________ riak-users mailing list riak-users@lists.basho.com http://lists.basho.com/mailman/listinfo/riak-users_lists.basho.com
