Re: Two quick questions about X-RIak-Meta-* headers....

2015-12-08 Thread Dmitri Zagidulin
o a key-key-value-value store. There is an elegance to > storing both the data and the metadata at the same time and in the same > place via the same operation, so that is the perferred direction. > > > > From: Damien Krotkine > Date: Tuesday, December 8, 2015 at 12:35 AM > T

Re: Two quick questions about X-RIak-Meta-* headers....

2015-12-08 Thread Joe Olson
ecember 8, 2015 12:35:56 AM Subject: Re: Two quick questions about X-RIak-Meta-* headers Hi Joe, First of all, what Dmitri says makes a lot of sense. From what I understand, you are trying to avoid wasting network bandwidth by transferring data where you only need the metadata of your keys

Re: Two quick questions about X-RIak-Meta-* headers....

2015-12-07 Thread Damien Krotkine
Hi Joe, First of all, what Dmitri says makes a lot of sense. From what I understand, you are trying to avoid wasting network bandwidth by transferring data where you only need the metadata of your keys. As Dmitri pointed out, if your replication factor is 3 (default), then Riak will internall

Re: Two quick questions about X-RIak-Meta-* headers....

2015-12-07 Thread Dmitri Zagidulin
Hi Joe, 1. Yes, it's possible (with the HTTP HEAD request, or the client library equivalent (I'm pretty sure all the client libraries expose the 'return only the headers' part of the object fetch -- see the Optional Parameters head=true section of the PB API http://docs.basho.com/riak/latest/dev/r