Multiple views also allows you to split them across design documents, which means they can be built independently and in parallel.
On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 5:44 PM, Jens Alfke <j...@couchbase.com> wrote: > > On Jul 22, 2014, at 2:51 AM, Landry Soules <landry.soules...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > My question is : is it more efficient to create a single view containing > > several emit, for example: > > emit([doc.age, doc.gender, doc.lastSeen], doc); > > emit([doc.gender, doc.age, doc.lastSeen], doc); > > or to create several views, each of them containing one emit statement ? > > Creating several views is probably better, since each one will be slightly > faster to search. Also, with one view you can easily get mixed up between > different types of keys — for example, if you emit both doc.gender and > doc.name as keys, and both are strings, then the “F” gender rows are > going to appear in between the names that start with “E” and “F”, which > sounds like a mess. > > —Jens
