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BrianTheCoder # drev1: got a schema design question, got a second?

drev1 # sure

BrianTheCoder # ok, so lets say I have a days bucket and a months bucket 
and an events bucket so /months/12/events,_,_ would get all the events 
for that month and /days/7/events,_,_ would get all the events for that day
would there be an advantage to tagging the months link with the day?

drev1 # you might also consider: months/12/days,_,_/events
BrianTheCoder # so I could get all the events for a day via: 
/months/12/days,7,_/events er I mean /months/12/events,7,_ would get all the events for dec 7th

drev1 # so you would tag the event by day?

BrianTheCoder # yeah

drev1 # that works

BrianTheCoder # would that be better than /months/12/days,7,_/events?

drev1 # you'd have to add a link to the month object every time an event is added
depending on how many events a month you might overload the month object

BrianTheCoder # I just trying to figure out the best link structure
I mean if I link the day to the month and tag it with that day 
then something link /months/12/days,7,_/events is possible
what is the cost of an extra level of links?

drev1 # it's an extra phase in the map reduce chain
but the extra phase just collects the links on the object and walks to them
so it is very minimal

BrianTheCoder # ok so if I link events to days and months, and then link days 
to months and tag that link, that'd make sense right?
so I could do /months/12/events
er /months/12/events,_,_

drev1 # you could skip that and just do: /months/12/days,_,_/events
are you going to add the year to the month object?

BrianTheCoder # but wouldn't short circuit that linkage be faster?

drev1 # 122010

BrianTheCoder # yeah well maybe do a year bucket
so I could do /years/2010/months,5,_/days,1,_/events
er /years/2010/months,5,_/days,1,_/events,_,_
always forget the last bit

drev1 # I think that is a sensible structure

BrianTheCoder # coolio :D
starting to get the hang of this :D

drev1 # the individual month and day objects need to have the context of the year
so, month/122010 so that object is distinguishable from month/122011
does that make sense?

BrianTheCoder # yeah

drev1 # you could predefine your year objects as well

BrianTheCoder # what do you mean?
just seed the store?

drev1 # you could define a "year/2010" with links to "month/012010", "month/022010", etc.
yes, seed the store

BrianTheCoder # yeah, working on a little library wrapper around 
riak client to make all this time stuff easy