Uh. This sounds simple?

view: by_home_owner_name:
if (doc.home_owner_name) { emit(doc.home_owner_name, 1); }

view: by_inspection_date:
if (doc.inspection_date) {
var d = new Date(doc.inspection_date);
emit ([ d.getFullYear(), d.getMonth() + 1, d.getDate() ], 1);
}

To look for all of my inspections:
...by_home_owner_name?key=Keith Gable

To get all of the inspections for today:
...by_inspection_date?reduce=false&key=[2011,3,17]

To get all of the inspections for this month:
...by_inspection_date?reduce=false&startkey=[2011,3,0]&endkey=[2011,3,{}]


Combining the two:

view: by_inspection_date_and_homeowner_name:
if (doc.inspection_date && doc.homeowner_name) {
var d = new Date(doc.inspection_date);
emit ([ d.getFullYear(), d.getMonth() + 1, d.getDate(),
doc.homeowner_name ], 1);
}

...by_inspection_date_and_homeowner_name?reduce=false&startkey=[2011,3,0]&endkey=[2011,3,{}]

Will result in:
[2011,3,1,"Alice"]
[2011,3,1,"Bob"]
[2011,3,2,"Keith"]


Does any of that not do what you want?

On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 12:33 PM, Justin Walgran <jwalgran@azavea.com> wrote:
> Assume a CouchDB storing and indexing housing inspection records. Each
> inspection document as two important fields.
>
>  - Home owner name
>  - Inspection date
>
> There are about 15,000 inspection documents generated per month.
>
> I need to quickly retrieve a list of inspections for January, sorted
> by home owner name.
>
> The issue I am running into is the fact that the size of the result
> set requires paging the data using limit and startkey. This would
> required that the view key be the inspection date, which means the
> results cannot be sorted by home owner name. The size of the data
> means that pulling it all down to the client and sorting in the
> browser is not performant.
>
> Is there a clever way to solve this problem?
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Justin
>



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