Riak is not aware of the data types. It just presents a list of values to the client for conflict resolution.
Curtis On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 7:15 AM, James Sadler <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Dmitry, > > Being able to represent any Erlang term is a good start. > > Which leads me to Riak's conflict resolution. Does this part of Riak > understand the data types or does it just present the N alternative > values for a key to the client when there is a conflict? > > There is potential for some semi-automated merging to be done > server-side in the case where values have richer semantics. I suspect > that it would depend on the application, and the client would need to > tell Riak it's OK to perform an automatic merge on write. > > On 3 August 2010 23:59, Dmitry Demeshchuk <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, James. > > > > Actually, Riak can store all Erlang terms: lists, tuples, numbers, > > binaries, etc. > > > > But if you use, for example, PHP or Python, you can just use your own > > serialization format. So there are no problems here for any other > > languages as well. > > > > On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 5:47 PM, James Sadler <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Hi guys, > >> > >> Is there any plan for supporting more than opaque blobs as values in > >> the future? For example, lists, sets, hashes etc, including > >> server-side support for operating on those data-types? > >> > >> In the meantime, I am curious about the feasibility of putting > >> riak_core in front of Redis, and supporting a richer API in the layers > >> above (which I suspect would need to be heavily modified to support > >> additional value manipulation functionality). > >> > >> Also, is anyone aware of anyone attempting such a project? > >> > >> Cheers, > >> > >> -- > >> James > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> riak-users mailing list > >> [email protected] > >> http://lists.basho.com/mailman/listinfo/riak-users_lists.basho.com > >> > > > > > > > > -- > > Best regards, > > Dmitry Demeshchuk > > > > > > -- > James > > _______________________________________________ > riak-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.basho.com/mailman/listinfo/riak-users_lists.basho.com >
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