Re: UnQL

2011-08-26 Thread Andrew Stuart (SuperCoders)
Off topic, but I think an official solution to full text search should have been a higher priority than unql. as On 26/08/2011, at 5:21 PM, Mark Hahn wrote: I'm kind of surprised that there has been no mention of UnQL on this mailing list, especially since the creator of couch was one of

Re: no 'writers' section in _security killing me

2011-07-11 Thread Andrew Stuart (SuperCoders)
Perhaps I have my terminology wrong. Im talking about applications in which there is CouchDB and the browser client, and nothing in between - is that single tier or two tier? as On 12/07/2011, at 10:06 AM, Benoit Chesneau wrote: On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 1:14 AM, Andrew Stuart

Building substantial "pure" 2 tier CouchApps - feasible?

2011-07-11 Thread Andrew Stuart (SuperCoders)
I'd like to build a rather substantial application, it would be nice to build it as a pure 2 tier CouchApp. How practical is this really? Does anyone have experience building anything big in this way? Or are 2 tier CouchApps really only effective for small stuff? I understand that it ve

Re: no 'writers' section in _security killing me

2011-07-11 Thread Andrew Stuart (SuperCoders)
nt. --Jonathan On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 5:02 PM, Andrew Stuart (SuperCoders) < andrew.stu...@supercoders.com.au> wrote: Okay I understand now I think - essentially "write only" access control for a given user is not built-in. Seems like a good thing to be part of the basic se

Re: no 'writers' section in _security killing me

2011-07-11 Thread Andrew Stuart (SuperCoders)
se that moves the data to a private database and removes it from the public database. 2. Use the built-in rewriter to limit access to a given database to POST/PUT (don't allow GET through) --Jonathan On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 4:27 PM, Andrew Stuart (SuperCoders) < andrew.stu...@sup

Re: no 'writers' section in _security killing me

2011-07-11 Thread Andrew Stuart (SuperCoders)
: how would one replicate these write-only dropboxes? B. On 11 July 2011 22:13, Andrew Stuart (SuperCoders) wrote: I've followed this thread but it's still somewhat unclear - -- is "write only" database access built in/easy to do, or must it be enabled via some special ex

Re: no 'writers' section in _security killing me

2011-07-11 Thread Andrew Stuart (SuperCoders)
I've followed this thread but it's still somewhat unclear - -- is "write only" database access built in/easy to do, or must it be enabled via some special external logic imposed at the application layer? as On 12/07/2011, at 6:39 AM, Jonathan Geddes wrote: One more possible solution: Coul

Re: Has Erlang's promise of parallelism been realised in CouchDB?

2011-06-30 Thread Andrew Stuart (SuperCoders)
/2011, at 5:53 PM, Randall Leeds wrote: On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 17:55, Andrew Stuart (SuperCoders) wrote: One of the primary supposed advantages of Erlang is its ability to parallelise. Has this promise been realised as a performance and scalability benefit in CouchDB? Or has the promise

Re: Has Erlang's promise of parallelism been realised in CouchDB?

2011-06-30 Thread Andrew Stuart (SuperCoders)
I imagine that if anything needs the performance it is the view indexer? On 30/06/2011, at 6:06 PM, Dirkjan Ochtman wrote: On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 09:53, Randall Leeds wrote: But beyond the parallelization of request handling there's concurrency in the more general sense. The neat thing abou

Has Erlang's promise of parallelism been realised in CouchDB?

2011-06-29 Thread Andrew Stuart (SuperCoders)
One of the primary supposed advantages of Erlang is its ability to parallelise. Has this promise been realised as a performance and scalability benefit in CouchDB? Or has the promise turned out to be too impractical to realise in any major way. as

Re: What's coming next from CouchOne?

2011-06-12 Thread Andrew Stuart (SuperCoders)
, Andrew Stuart (SuperCoders) wrote: Should we be expecting CouchOne to be delivering anything substantial soon as the fruit of the merger with Membase? Has the CouchOne merger slowed the pace of release/development? What's the next major features to expect for CouchBase? as -- Tw

What's coming next from CouchOne?

2011-06-12 Thread Andrew Stuart (SuperCoders)
Should we be expecting CouchOne to be delivering anything substantial soon as the fruit of the merger with Membase? Has the CouchOne merger slowed the pace of release/development? What's the next major features to expect for CouchBase? as

Re: Any existing code/samples/examples for couchdb self service?

2011-05-27 Thread Andrew Stuart (SuperCoders)
elfservice <https://github.com/ocasta/CouchDB-Selfservice>Martin On 27 May 2011 00:13, Andrew Stuart (SuperCoders) < andrew.stu...@supercoders.com.au> wrote: Hi Martin Following up on this - any chance the code or some portion of it might be accessible so we can see how you solved

Re: Any existing code/samples/examples for couchdb self service?

2011-05-26 Thread Andrew Stuart (SuperCoders)
ite a web service that your app connects to, that creates the database on your db server. On May 7, 2011 1:48 AM, "Andrew Stuart (SuperCoders)" < andrew.stu...@supercoders.com.au> wrote: Hi, The app I am designing needs to create an individual new database for each new user that s

Re: Does CouchDB support gzip encoding?

2011-05-25 Thread Andrew Stuart (SuperCoders)
Are you running your curl test from local or remote machine? Is nginx on the same machine or local? as On 25/05/2011, at 6:53 PM, Torstein Krause Johansen wrote: Hi again, On 25 May 2011 16:10, Torstein Krause Johansen wrote: On 25 May 2011 15:05, Andrew Stuart (SuperCoders) wrote: I

Re: Does CouchDB support gzip encoding?

2011-05-25 Thread Andrew Stuart (SuperCoders)
I put nginx in front of the server as a reverse proxy and configure it to do the GZIP compression. as On 25/05/2011, at 5:01 PM, Torstein Krause Johansen wrote: Hi all, first of all, thanks for a great product. I've been enjoying my first weeks with CouchDB, its simplicity and RESTfulness

CouchDB SMTP server integration

2011-05-15 Thread Andrew Stuart (SuperCoders)
I saw some old messages in the mailing list archive referring to CouchDB as a mail store. I'm interested in finding out if this went anywhere. Specifically, has anyone done anything to integrate and SMTP server into couchdb? Is there any code out there that writes RFC822 messages into cou

Re: Any existing code/samples/examples for couchdb self service?

2011-05-09 Thread Andrew Stuart (SuperCoders)
ts to, that creates the database on your db server. On May 7, 2011 1:48 AM, "Andrew Stuart (SuperCoders)" < andrew.stu...@supercoders.com.au> wrote: Hi, The app I am designing needs to create an individual new database for each new user that signs up. That user is the only user al

Re: [ann] couchapp 0.8.0 is out

2011-05-08 Thread Andrew Stuart (SuperCoders)
It's still a little unclear to me - is couchapp a tool for developing couchdb applications locally and automatically deploying them to a couchdb server, or is couchapp the concept of developing applications in which there is no middle tier between client and couchdb? Or is couchapp not two

Re: Any existing code/samples/examples for couchdb self service?

2011-05-07 Thread Andrew Stuart (SuperCoders)
e a web service that your app connects to, that creates the database on your db server. On May 7, 2011 1:48 AM, "Andrew Stuart (SuperCoders)" < andrew.stu...@supercoders.com.au> wrote: Hi, The app I am designing needs to create an individual new database for each new user that signs

Any existing code/samples/examples for couchdb self service?

2011-05-06 Thread Andrew Stuart (SuperCoders)
Hi, The app I am designing needs to create an individual new database for each new user that signs up. That user is the only user allowed access to their database. Very similar to the way an email service would work - sign up, confirmation email is sent out and you then get your own ema

Open source blogging couchapps?

2011-04-04 Thread Andrew Stuart (SuperCoders)
I'm surveying the open source couchapps for blogging. The key requirement is that it must include integrated commenting. Can anyone suggest the most polished/complete open source couchapps for blogging with integrated comments? So far Sofa appears to me to be the closest to the mark and I've

Re: Need to get total rows of startkey/endkey range for paging

2011-04-02 Thread Andrew Stuart (SuperCoders)
ns for more info on built-in reduce functions. Nils. ________ Van: Andrew Stuart (SuperCoders) [andrew.stu...@supercoders.com.au] Verzonden: zaterdag 2 april 2011 7:27 Aan: user@couchdb.apache.org Onderwerp: Need to get total rows of startkey/endkey range for paging Hey there folks I am issuing a quer

Need to get total rows of startkey/endkey range for paging

2011-04-01 Thread Andrew Stuart (SuperCoders)
Hey there folks I am issuing a query to a view which uses startkey and endkey to constrain the range of values to be retrieved from the view. Within this I am using skip and limit to page through the results. The problem is that I need the count of the number of total rows, not of the vi

Re: Recommendations for how to do faceted search in CouchDB

2011-03-29 Thread Andrew Stuart (SuperCoders)
,{}]&group=true to see all the values in that field. You don't really need _count, but that might be useful if you wanted to have some minimum of how many times a term is used before you include it. -Patrick On 30/03/2011 1:50 PM, Andrew Stuart (SuperCoders) wrote: hi folks

Recommendations for how to do faceted search in CouchDB

2011-03-29 Thread Andrew Stuart (SuperCoders)
hi folks What's the best way to do facted search in CouchDB? For example consider a jobs website where the user selects from dropdown lists to narrow the search location/industry/job title i.e. melbourne/IT industry/software engineer or sydney/accounting/bookkeeper It doesn't seem practica

Re: Full text search - is it coming? If yes, approx when.

2011-03-28 Thread Andrew Stuart (SuperCoders)
the keys for sorting and selecting which values you want shown which they are designed to do and do really well. This would be a killer feature and could use the new infrastructure from Cloudant search. And don't tell me the Elastic or Lucene interface could do anything close to this :) Regards

Re: Full text search - is it coming? If yes, approx when.

2011-03-28 Thread Andrew Stuart (SuperCoders)
eally well. This would be a killer feature and could use the new infrastructure from Cloudant search. And don't tell me the Elastic or Lucene interface could do anything close to this :) Regards, Olafur Arason On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 04:31, Andrew Stuart (SuperCoders) wrote: It would be go

Full text search - is it coming? If yes, approx when.

2011-03-27 Thread Andrew Stuart (SuperCoders)
It would be good to know if full text search is coming as a core feature and if yes, approximately when - does anyone know? Even an approximate timeframe would be good. thanks

Question regarding helper functions

2011-03-27 Thread Andrew Stuart (SuperCoders)
hi folks the following list includes a provides('html' helper function. What are these helper functions? Is there documentation/a reference guide of all helper functions somewhere? Are they specific to couchdb, specific to lists? { "_id": "_design/listtest", "_rev": "22-31ba90b5

Re: Couchdb - how to search within field or fields?

2011-03-23 Thread Andrew Stuart (SuperCoders)
search seems a relatively important core feature of a database? Damien Katz announcement about the merger says that Membase will be getting Couchdb's indexing features including lucene. http://blog.couchbase.com/couchone-membase-couchbase Is Damien saying lucene is part of couchdb? On 24/03

Re: Couchdb - how to search within field or fields?

2011-03-23 Thread Andrew Stuart (SuperCoders)
udant Search (hosted): http://blog.cloudant.com/developer-preview-cloudant-search-for-couchdb/ On 03/23/11 15:56, Andrew Stuart (SuperCoders) wrote: hello I have emails stored in a couchdb database and have parsed the major fields into JSON . I'd like to be able to search for emails, here

Couchdb - how to search within field or fields?

2011-03-23 Thread Andrew Stuart (SuperCoders)
hello I have emails stored in a couchdb database and have parsed the major fields into JSON . I'd like to be able to search for emails, here are some examples of the types of searches I need to do: find all emails that have "java OR c++" in the subject line find all emails that have "grad

Re: blocking during view generation

2011-03-22 Thread Andrew Stuart (SuperCoders)
Ah well that makes sense. I had the impression from the discussion that the server blocked more widely than just the view being generated which would have been very strange. On 23/03/2011, at 3:12 PM, kowsik wrote: On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 8:51 PM, Andrew Stuart (SuperCoders) wrote: Say I

Re: blocking during view generation

2011-03-22 Thread Andrew Stuart (SuperCoders)
ue, Mar 22, 2011 at 8:28 PM, Andrew Stuart (SuperCoders) wrote: This one seems hard to believe - is it true that CouchDB blocks the server whilst updating views? View updates can be alot of work for a server. So in reality, queries to the server pause whilst views are updated? This doesn't

Re: blocking during view generation

2011-03-22 Thread Andrew Stuart (SuperCoders)
of time for views to update. Odd that such an issue has remained for so long into the life of CouchDB. as On 23/03/2011, at 2:34 PM, kowsik wrote: On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 8:28 PM, Andrew Stuart (SuperCoders) wrote: This one seems hard to believe - is it true that CouchDB blocks the ser

Re: blocking during view generation

2011-03-22 Thread Andrew Stuart (SuperCoders)
This one seems hard to believe - is it true that CouchDB blocks the server whilst updating views? View updates can be alot of work for a server. So in reality, queries to the server pause whilst views are updated? This doesn't seem practical for any production usage. Can someone confirm that

Re: Is it possible to gather data from various databases into another?

2011-02-21 Thread Andrew Stuart (SuperCoders)
ase. Any other ideas? Thanks On 22/02/2011, at 6:49 PM, Nils Breunese wrote: How about Replication? http://wiki.apache.org/couchdb/Replication Nils. Van: Andrew Stuart (SuperCoders) [andrew.stu...@supercoders.com.au] Verzonden: dinsdag 22 februari 201

Requesting explanation of terms in CouchOne announcement

2011-02-21 Thread Andrew Stuart (SuperCoders)
Hello The CouchOne announcement http://www.membase.com/merger-technology-vision refers to the following terms but there's not much to explain them: ** user code execution across database nodes with scatter-gather support ** multi point triggers Can someone refer me to explanations of these t

Is it possible to gather data from various databases into another?

2011-02-21 Thread Andrew Stuart (SuperCoders)
Imagine an architecture in which there is a database per group discussion. Each user has their own private database into which data is pulled out all the various discussion databases that they have access to. Is there a mechanism in Couchdb to pull data from various databases into anoth