Hi Jan,

Jan Lehnardt schrieb:
> On 6 Apr 2010, at 10:23, Julian Moritz wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>>
>> first of all: to make the keys of a view unique via reduce, i do it as
>> it's desribed in the "definitive guide to couchdb".
> 
> try using "_sum" as your reduce function, it'll use an Erlang version that
> will be faster than the JS version. "_sum" expects the emit() value to be
> an integer. Just emit(doc.whatever, 1).
> 

my reduce-function does a `return True` atm. Would it really be a speed-up?

I just did what you are writing on p 185 in "the definitive guide".

regards
Julian

> Cheers
> Jan
> --
> 
>> J Chris Anderson schrieb:
>>> On Apr 5, 2010, at 12:19 PM, Julian Moritz wrote:
>>>
>>>> But I need it for making my list unique. This is an important feature
>>>> for my application.
>>> This is probably explains the slowness. When you do a group=true query, CouchDB has to run the reduce function once for each unique key (serializing all the rows in the key to the JS process, and parsing the results.)
>>>
>>> I haven't tested this, but you might get better response throughput by dropping the reduce function and using a _list which only sends one row of output each time the key changes. This will avoid some additional Erlang processing of the result.
>>>
>>> Some documentation for _list is here:
>>>
>>> http://books.couchdb.org/relax/design-documents/lists
>> Thank you, I will have a look on it.
>>
>> Regards
>> Julian
>>
>>>> Thanks, I'll think about how to set up a couchdb cluster and do more
>>>> testing.
>>>>
>>>> Regards
>>>> Julian
>>>>
>>>>> Chris
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> Regards
>>>>>> Julian
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I've developed a (in my eyes) simple view. I have a wordlist which does
>>>>>>> not  contain unique words. I want to store it in a view, with every word
>>>>>>> occurring once and ordered by random. Therefore I have a simple view
>>>>>>> function:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> function(doc){
>>>>>>> emit([hash(doc.word), doc.word], null);
>>>>>>> }
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> and a simple reduce:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> function(key, values, rereduce){
>>>>>>> return true;
>>>>>>> }
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> calling that view with group=true it does what I want.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> When storing plenty of words to the database, one of my two cpu cores is
>>>>>>> used completely by couchjs.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Isn't the view built using two (or all) cpu cores? I thought (obviously
>>>>>>> I'm wrong) that it would be calculated in parallel and using a
>>>>>>> quadro-core (or more cores) would make storing faster.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Is there a solution for that? Should I use another query-server?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Regards
>>>>>>> Julian
>>>>>>>
>>>
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