On Oct 27, 2008, at 17:15, Dean Landolt wrote:

> On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 12:13 PM, Jan Lehnardt <jan@apache.org> wrote:
>
>>
>> On Oct 27, 2008, at 16:53, Ben Nevile wrote:
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>>
>>>> First off to alay your main concern, view indexes are not  
>>>> completely
>>>> regenerated on each update. Its only a diff.
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Presumably reduce operations have to operate on the entire set  
>>> every time?
>>>
>>
>> Nope, reduce results are stored in the btree back nodes.
>
>
> Or...that.
>
> Jan -- can you speak to what that means? Back nodes?

See http://horicky.blogspot.com/2008/10/couchdb-implementation.html

Cheers
Jan
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