+user On Thu, Jan 7, 2016 at 11:22 AM, Heng Yan (Gmail) <heng...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I have seen financial services customer used parentregions/subregions to > group data by date. Basically the top parent region is each trading date > and subregions are actual data regions. When all the data of a given date > was no longer being used (one or two days later), they just simply > destroyed the parent region. > > Yes, this case could be done by appending date to each data region name as > well. However, you will have to destroy all of them one by one when they > are no longer being used. > > Regards, > > Heng > > > On Jan 7, 2016, at 1:41 PM, Jens Deppe <jde...@pivotal.io> wrote: > > > > In the past (GemFire days) we've had discussions about deprecating > > subregions. I'd like to raise the topic again for consideration. > > > > Subregions are merely a way to provide a logical, hierarchical grouping > of > > regions and don't provide any kind of functionality or behavior which is > > inherited or implied. > > > > A similar hierarchy could just as easily be created by using your own > > naming conventions. For example, given region* 'A'* as the root, region > > *'A_B'* would be the first 'subregion' and *'A_B_C'* could be considered > a > > 'sub-subregion'. > > > > Thoughts? Comments? > > > > --Jens > >
