CouchDB is a lot easier to understand if you think about querying views alphabetically like a card catalog. You can say "AA to BZ" but you cannot say "*A to *Z".
That said, CouchDB Lucene is actually built for those kinds of queries (and more) and it is really simple to use. Try it out. On Sep 17, 2012 11:52 PM, "Pulkit Singhal" <pulkitsing...@gmail.com> wrote: > With a compound key being spit out by a MAP as follows: > emit ( [elem1, elem2, elem3, elem4, elem5], doc); > > Is it possible to do a search using startkey and endkey in v1.2.0 where the > beginning elements could be anything? Like this: > startkey=[ {}, {}, {}, "elem4name", "elem5name" ] > > Thoughts? >