Is it better then to define a view per design doc then? If I have say, 8 views for a given person design doc, would you place them in one single doc or break them into smaller units?
-- Tito > On Jul 22, 2014, at 9:45, Mike Marino <mmar...@gmail.com> wrote: > > 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
