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Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2008 10:28:29 +0100
From: "Adam Groves" <adam.groves@gmail.com>
To: user@couchdb.apache.org
Subject: Re: Multiple search criteria with ranges
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Hi Paul,

I noticed you were working on various search solutions for CouchDB.
Your EFTI project on github specifically caught my attention. Is it on
ice at the moment?

Kind regards

Adam Groves

2008/12/14 Paul Davis <paul.joseph.davis@gmail.com>:
> Faceted search like this isn't best supported directly in CouchDB
> itself. Its a feature that's been discussed for implementation but as
> of yet there aren't any concrete plans on what that implementation
> would look like.
>
> That being said, there's nothing keeping you from using an external
> indexer such as Solr that supports faceted searching like you're
> describing.
>
> Also, patches are welcome :D
>
> Paul Davis
>
> On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 12:06 PM, Dan Woolley <danwoolley@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I'm researching Couchdb for a project dealing with real estate listing data.
>>  I'm very interested in Couchdb because the schema less nature, RESTful
>> interface, and potential off-line usage with syncing fit my problem very
>> well.  I've been able to do some prototyping and search on ranges for a
>> single field very successfully.  I'm having trouble wrapping my mind around
>> views for a popular use case in real estate, which is a query like:
>>
>> Price = 350000-400000
>> Beds = 4-5
>> Baths = 2-3
>>
>> Any single range above is trivial, but what is the best model for handling
>> this AND scenario with views?  The only thing I've been able to come up with
>> is three views returning doc id's - which should be very fast - with an
>> array intersection calculation on the client side.  Although I haven't tried
>> it yet, that client side calculation worries me with a potential document
>> with 1M records - the client would potentially be dealing with calculating
>> the intersection of multiple 100K element arrays.  Is that a realistic
>> calculation?
>>
>> Please tell me there is a better model for dealing with this type of
>> scenario - or that this use case is not well suited for Couchdb at this time
>> and I should move along.
>>
>>
>> Dan Woolley
>> profile:  http://www.linkedin.com/in/danwoolley
>> company:  http://woolleyrobertson.com
>> product:  http://dwellicious.com
>> blog:  http://tzetzefly.com
>>
>>
>>
>>
>