Hmm...just created a new account to track this in the Basho bugzilla...seems not to recognize new accounts...
-J On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 7:31 AM, Justin Sheehy <[email protected]> wrote: > I think that we are all (myself included) getting two different issues > a bit mixed up in this discussion: > > 1: storing an implicit index of keys in the Riak key/value store > > 2: making buckets separate in that a per-bucket operation's > performance would not be affected by the content of other buckets > > The thread started out with a request for #2, but included a > suggestion to do #1. These are actually two different topics. > > The first issue, implicitly storing a big index of keys, is > impractical in a distributed key/value storage system that has Riak's > availability goals. We are very unlikely to implement this as > described in the near future. However, we very much recognize that > there are many different ways that people would like to find their > data. In that light, we are working on multiple different efforts > that will use the Riak core to provide data storage with more than > just "simple" key/value access. > > The second issue, of isolating buckets, is a much simpler design > choice and is also a per-backend implementation detail. We can create > and provide an alternative bitcask adapter that does this. It will be > a real tradeoff: in exchange for buckets not impacting each other as > much, the system will consume more filehandles, be a bit less > efficient at rebalancing, and will generally make buckets no longer > "free". This is a reasonable tradeoff in either direction for various > applications, and I support making it available as a choice. I have > created a bugzilla entry to track it: > https://issues.basho.com/show_bug.cgi?id=480 > > I hope that this helps to clarify the issue. > > -Justin > > _______________________________________________ > riak-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.basho.com/mailman/listinfo/riak-users_lists.basho.com > _______________________________________________ riak-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.basho.com/mailman/listinfo/riak-users_lists.basho.com
