On Thu, Dec 19, 2013 at 11:14 PM, Jason Campbell <xia...@xiaclo.net> wrote:

> Can anyone familiar with Riak internals describe how siblings are handled
> in Level DB? I think part of this issue is a misunderstanding of how that
> works and false expectations.
>
> As far as I understand, siblings are light at write time and resolved at
> read time.
>
>
No, the behavior in LevelDB is no different than the behavior of any of our
other backends, namely, all siblings occupy the same key. Every write
involves a fetch from the backend so that the existing value can be
superseded by or merged with the incoming write.

-- 
Sean Cribbs <s...@basho.com>
Software Engineer
Basho Technologies, Inc.
http://basho.com/
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