So just create a new database and gin up the appropriate XML structure for what’s in my map (or what I would have put I the map) and then query against that, using node-id() to record the nodes from the database I’m indexing against.
That definitely makes sense—I think maybe I have a little bit of ElasticSearch brain damage from a previous job. Thanks, E. _____________________________________________ Eliot Kimber Sr Staff Content Engineer O: 512 554 9368 M: 512 554 9368 servicenow.com<https://www.servicenow.com> LinkedIn<https://www.linkedin.com/company/servicenow> | Twitter<https://twitter.com/servicenow> | YouTube<https://www.youtube.com/user/servicenowinc> | Facebook<https://www.facebook.com/servicenow> From: Christian Grün <christian.gr...@gmail.com> Date: Friday, January 21, 2022 at 11:53 AM To: Eliot Kimber <eliot.kim...@servicenow.com> Cc: basex-talk@mailman.uni-konstanz.de <basex-talk@mailman.uni-konstanz.de> Subject: Re: [basex-talk] Strategy for Persisting Maps that Contain Nodes: db:node-id() [External Email] Hi Eliot, XQuery Maps are very efficient, but they are mostly useful for ad-hoc queries. If you want to create an additional persistent data structure, I would probably create a database in order to benefit from the standard index structures. db:node-id can be helpful indeed. See e.g. [1] for a little example. Best, Christian [1] https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://docs.basex.org/wiki/Indexes*Custom_Index_Structures__;Iw!!N4vogdjhuJM!XPtZc9sLkuddFj8NOxscyQ2d1RxM5t4s6KvswXztMuJgrdZ3bgKUOvmqNZKTNZd82-1ahg$<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/docs.basex.org/wiki/Indexes*Custom_Index_Structures__;Iw!!N4vogdjhuJM!XPtZc9sLkuddFj8NOxscyQ2d1RxM5t4s6KvswXztMuJgrdZ3bgKUOvmqNZKTNZd82-1ahg$> > I have large maps that include nodes as entry values. I want to persist these > maps in the DB for subsequent retrieval. > > I believe the best/only strategy is: > > Construct a new map where each node in a value is replaced by its node-id() > value. > Serialize the map to JSON and store as a blob > > To reconstitute it, do the reverse (parse JSON into map, replace node-ids() > with nodes). > > Is my analysis correct? Have I missed any detail or better approach? > > Thanks, > > Eliot
