+1 for Paul's suggestions. Especially about the "delete". Regards, Zabrane
On Apr 20, 2012, at 8:20 PM, Paul Gross wrote: > Riak is a breeze to host and maintain, but more difficult to develop against > than other NoSQL databases (e.g. MongoDB and Redis). I think it would help > adoption to close the developer gap. This includes things like: > > 1. Add other data types like lists and sets. With lists, features like > blocking pop would be great. MongoDB also has capped collections which keep a > fixed number of documents. > > 2. Improve secondary indexes. Add indexes to existing documents without > writing them all one by one. Allow querying by multiple indexes. Maybe even > allow secondary index lookups to return the documents, rather than requiring > separate GETs for each key. > > 3. Add an easy way to delete a bucket. > > 4. Add the concept of ordering (without having to fall back to map/reduce). > It's difficult to do paging without ordering, and most webapps require it. In > general, paging in RIak is hard, since there's no concept of a range of > results from a secondary index. > > Thanks, > Paul > www.pgrs.net > > On 4/19/12 12:31 PM, Mark Phillips wrote: >> >> At this point Riak has been deployed thousands of times. This is excellent, >> but as you can imagine we here at Basho feel this is just the tip of the >> iceberg. We want everyone to be running Riak. The software obviously needs >> to solve enough problems for people to want to deploy it. However, we need >> to get the software into developers' hands before this happens. So the >> question is: >> >> What can we be doing better? >> >> I'm not talking so much about features in Riak itself. I'm more interested >> in the other resources, tools, docs, processes, etc., that you think >> we need to put in place or refine to take the Riak community from 1000s of >> users to 100,000s of users. By virtue of being on this list, you've all >> spent some time using or investigating Riak. As such, you're opinions and >> experiences would be very valuable. >> >> Any comments, ideas, or thoughts you had would be great. On or off-list will >> work. >> >> Thanks for your time. Long live the vnode! >> >> Mark >> twitter.com/pharkmillups >>
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