On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 10:09 PM, John E. Vincent <lusis.org+ riak-us...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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. > > My mistake. I think I misunderstood the notion of "Term". I thought that we were talking about the cardinality of the set of documents linked to a "term value", and not about the set of values of a single Term. Thanks for your clarifying that point :) > > > > -- > > Adrien > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > riak-users mailing list > > riak-users@lists.basho.com > > http://lists.basho.com/mailman/listinfo/riak-users_lists.basho.com > > > -- Adrien Mogenet 06.59.16.64.22 http://fr.flavors.me/adrienm
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