http://couchbase.com CouchBase server has this as a configuration and works exactly how riak would. However, using a different storage for incremental ids will present challenges. Have you carefully considered Couchbase , CouchDB or Big Couch ?
<http://www.linkedin.com/pub/muzaaya-joshua/39/2ba/202> Designed with WiseStamp - <http://r1.wisestamp.com/r/landing?u=cf16262215eb8784&v=3.11.21&t=1350986076607&promo=10&dest=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wisestamp.com%2Femail-install%3Futm_source%3Dextension%26utm_medium%3Demail%26utm_campaign%3Dpromo_10>Get yours<http://r1.wisestamp.com/r/landing?u=cf16262215eb8784&v=3.11.21&t=1350986076607&promo=10&dest=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wisestamp.com%2Femail-install%3Futm_source%3Dextension%26utm_medium%3Demail%26utm_campaign%3Dpromo_10> On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 7:32 AM, Rapsey <rap...@gmail.com> wrote: > There is also another trick you can use. Pick a number. Assign every app > server you have a number between 1 and N. The number assigned to the server > is your starting ID, then increment by N every time you generate an ID from > that server. The only limitation is that you have to know in advance how > big N can get (it has to be larger than the number of your app servers). > > > Sergej > > > On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 6:00 AM, Shashwat Srivastava <dark...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> Thank you Guido. Yes, a secondary index based on date would be immensely >> helpful for me to navigate via date. I will do this. An incremental message >> id would be helpful for me to get last 50 messages and so forth. I will use >> another db for this. Thanks for all your help. >> >> Shashwat >> >> >> On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 2:46 PM, Guido Medina >> <guido.med...@temetra.com>wrote: >> >>> Don't overkill it with technology, you could use Riak with a simple 2i >>> index (integer index YYYYMMDD for the message date so you can search day by >>> day backward), and for the message sequence or identifier you could either >>> user ANY SQL database sequence or a UUID generator. >>> >>> HTH, >>> >>> Guido. >>> >>> >>> On 22/10/12 10:04, Rapsey wrote: >>> >>> >>> On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 10:29 AM, Shashwat Srivastava <dark...@gmail.com >>> > wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> Now, each bucket would have conversation between two users or of a >>>> room of a site. The conversation rate for (some) rooms is very high, some >>>> 20,000 - 30,000 messages per hour. We have observed that users usually >>>> don't access conversations past one week. So, if a bucket has conversation >>>> of 3 years, then mostly users would access the recent conversation upto a >>>> week or month. Can riak handle this easily? Also, would riak use RAM wisely >>>> in this scenario? Would it only keep keys and indexes, corresponding to >>>> recent messages per bucket, in RAM? >>>> >>>> >>> Leveldb backend should. >>> >>> >>>> Finally, what is the best approach for creating keys in a bucket? >>>> Earlier, I was planning to use timestamp (in milliseconds). But in a room >>>> there can be multiple messages at the same time. As I understand I cannot >>>> have a unique incremental message id per bucket (as riak has write >>>> capability in all nodes in a cluster so consistency is not guareented). >>>> Please correct me if I am wrong. One other way could be to let riak >>>> generate key and I use timestamp as a secondary index. But this seems to be >>>> a bad design. Also, what would be the best way to achieve pagination for >>>> this use case? >>>> >>>> >>> You could use redis for incremental id's. >>> >>> >>> >>> Sergej >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> riak-users mailing >>> listriak-users@lists.basho.comhttp://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 >>> >>> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 > > -- *Muzaaya Joshua Systems Engineer +256774115170* *"Through it all, i have learned to trust in Jesus. To depend upon His Word" *
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