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21:20 <reiddraper_> i've got a question about setting links on 
objects, if anyone's around to answer 

21:20 <drev1> reiddraper_: what's the question? 

21:20 <reiddraper_> is there a way to add a link to an object 
without doing http PUT and sending the entire object? 

21:20 <reiddraper_> while adding the link header 

21:20 <drev1> no 

21:21 <reiddraper_> is that a vector clock related reason? 

21:24 <drev1> kind of 

21:27 <reiddraper_> ok, perhaps i can describe my simple schema, 
and see if there is another way to accomplish the same thing 

21:27 <reiddraper_> i'd like to store documents that come 
from web crawls about a particular resource, let's say a band 

21:28 <reiddraper_> and several documents might gather the 
birthdate of the band, and others might have record reviews 

21:28 <reiddraper_> and i was imagining using links from one 
"band" document, to all of these crawled documents 

21:29 <reiddraper_> but having to retrieve the band document, 
and resend it, adding a new link each time 

21:29 <reiddraper_> doesn't seem elegant 

21:30 <drev1> currently, that is the only method available 

21:31 <drev1> Riak Search, which is currently in Beta, 
might be an option 

21:31 <drev1> also, in Riak 0.14 there will be key filters 

21:32 <reiddraper_> key filters? 

21:32 <drev1> so, in Riak 0.13 managing links to multiple 
related documents must be done by fetching and storing the 
entire list of related documents 

21:33 <drev1> in Riak 0.14, key filters allow you to 
perform map/reduce queries against a subset of keys within a bucket 

21:33 <drev1> the subset of keys is defined by a filter 

21:33 <reiddraper_> ah, yes 

21:34 <drev1> for instance; you might prepend all your 
keys with band_name 

21:34 <reiddraper_> right 

21:34 <drev1> than filter for that name 

21:34 <drev1> this functionality is available in the master branch 
if you want to try it out 

21:35 <reiddraper_> great 

21:35 <reiddraper_> are there architectural changes with how keys 
are stored to make the key filtering possible without traversing every key? 

21:36 <reiddraper_> like being stored in a b-tree in bitcask or something? 

21:37 <drev1> there have been improvements to key listing and map/reduce 
but I am not familiar with the details 

21:38 <reiddraper_> thanks. riak search might be the way to go. 
trying to do something clever with links might end up being more trouble than it's worth 

21:38 <drev1> based on the information given it does not seem 
like links would be a good choice 

21:41 <reiddraper_> do you have a feel for how well integrated search is into the mapreduce api? 

21:42 <drev1> https://wiki.basho.com/display/RIAK/Riak+Search+-+Querying#RiakSearch-Querying-
QueryingviatheRiakClientAPI 

21:43 <reiddraper_> thanks