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Basho Blog: Secondary Indexes In Riak

by RKlophaus on 9/14/11, 6:10 PM with 5 comments

• by mbreese on 9/14/11, 7:19 PM

  Why return the primary key when performing a secondary index query instead of the whole record? This seems like it would add an extra round-trip. Would it be possible add a flag to return the whole record?

• by jrecursive on 9/14/11, 8:33 PM

  Given the current way [Riak] index queries are expressed, I was reminded of the unfortunately named HTSQL; I'm not sure if I am fond of it or not yet, but I thought I'd pass along a few references as it bears some at least superficial similarity to what exists in Riak at the moment, and that may be of use:

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTSQL

  http://htsql.org/doc/ref/index.html