Great! Currently there are only three built-in funs (which I documented here: http://wiki.apache.org/couchdb/Built-In_Reduce_Functions ). If raw performance is important for you, you could also consider using native erlang views (instead of using javascript). On 11.05.2010, at 11:16, Manokaran K wrote: > On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 1:40 PM, Sebastian Cohnen < > sebastiancohnen@googlemail.com> wrote: > >> _sum >> >> instead of >> >>> function(keys, values, rereduce){ >>> return sum(values); >>> } >> >> I think the wiki is missing some information on build-in reduce functions. >> I'll add this today. >> >> > Thanks a ton :-) > > The improvement was dramatic. What took close to 3 hours took just 20 mins > using _sum!! > > Waiting to see what other tricks are available. > > regds > mano