On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 01:48:16PM +0100, Lennart Melzer wrote: > Right now I can either have those documents sorted by their creation date, or > hierarchically correct, but not both. > > I don't want to use incrementing ids, since I'd like to stick with the uuids > ( or at least with ids, that do not tell anything about the ordering).
CouchDB can generate time-based UUIDs, where the top part of the uuid is the time and the bottom part is essentially random. I think this would work very well for you: - you get documents with equal keys naturally sorted by insertion time - you don't even need to add a created_time field, since you can parse it out of the uuid when you need it Regards, Brian.
