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From: Mike Marino <mmarino@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 10 Nov 2013 23:00:56 +0100
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Subject: Re: Storage limitations?
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Hi Mark,

On Sun, Nov 10, 2013 at 10:10 PM, Mark Deibert <mark.deibert@gmail.com> wro=
te:
> Each comment is normally a very small amount of information, and id,
> userName, a date and a small text field. Probably no more than a short
> sentence on average. Why do I need to go through the trouble of creating
> new comment docs for each? This totally complicates the comment read code
> (there will 1000 reads to every 1 write, at least) both in the UI and the
> db for no reason.

I'm not sure why this should complicate the comment read code.  You
can generate a view that emits as key the particular page/post to
which the comment refers.  As value, you can emit either a subset of
data you need from the comment, or simply emit "null" and call the
view with include_docs to get all the documents for the particular
post.  This would be a single http call.

Cheers,
Mike

>
>
> On Sun, Nov 10, 2013 at 1:34 PM, Jens Alfke <jens@couchbase.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> On Nov 9, 2013, at 11:47 AM, Robert Newson <rnewson@apache.org<mailto:
>> rnewson@apache.org>> wrote:
>>
>> attachments are different to documents. They're stored as a series of
>> binary chunks and so they can be streamed in and out, you can go large
>> with attachments.
>>
>> But on the other hand, all attachments will get copied during a database
>> compaction, so they slow down the process and require more free disk spa=
ce.
>> If you have many gigabytes of attachments, you might consider storing th=
em
>> externally and putting URL links in the documents.
>>
>> As for comments, just add new documents for each comment and use a
>> view (https://wiki.apache.org/couchdb/HTTP_view_API,
>> https://wiki.apache.org/couchdb/View_collation) to bring the article
>> and comment thread together. No need to update a document that way.
>>
>> Yup. The guide <guide.couchdb.org<http://guide.couchdb.org>> has a
>> chapter-long example of a blog application that shows how to do comments
>> this way.
>>
>> =97Jens
>>