It would be nice to understand what you changed in Blur and why so that we may be able to incorporate those changes in the code base so you don't have to modify on new releases.
Thanks! Aaron On Tue, Jul 1, 2014 at 12:11 AM, Ravikumar Govindarajan < [email protected]> wrote: > Yeah... > > We have actually modified Blur to do this... But till now we were using an > external system {Redis} to hold the mappings. But I prefer it to be self > contained within Blur eco-system and thats why this META shard stuff came > up > > -- > Ravi > > > On Tue, Jul 1, 2014 at 6:43 AM, Aaron McCurry <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Would a configurable partitioner help with what you are trying to do? > > > > > > On Fri, Jun 27, 2014 at 1:43 PM, Ravikumar Govindarajan < > > [email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Aaron, > > > > > > We are trying to externalize RowId to Shard mapping, instead of current > > > hashing algo. > > > > > > We thought of storing this in a META shard, where lucene's in-memory > > > postings format can be used. > > > > > > Also BlurClient can cache these mappings so there are progressively > fewer > > > trips to the meta-shard. > > > > > > -- > > > Ravi > > > > > > > > > > > > On Fri, Jun 27, 2014 at 6:35 PM, Aaron McCurry <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > > > > > When you get a change let us know what the use case is that you are > > > solving > > > > and perhaps we can add a feature to handle it. > > > > > > > > Aaron > > > > > > > > > > > > On Fri, Jun 27, 2014 at 7:57 AM, Ravikumar Govindarajan < > > > > [email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > Thanks Tim, > > > > > > > > > > Shall surely do that. That should suffice > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > > > Ravi > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > On Fri, Jun 27, 2014 at 3:21 PM, Tim Williams < > [email protected]> > > > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > On Friday, June 27, 2014, Ravikumar Govindarajan < > > > > > > [email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > We have a use-case whereby there is a need for a META shard. We > > > don't > > > > > > store > > > > > > > row-documents here as other normal shards, but some arbitrary > > > > > searchable > > > > > > > meta-data > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Is it possible in Blur to do this? > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Hi Ravi, > > > > > > Why not just create a "meta" table and put it in there with a 1-1 > > > > > > row-record relationship? > > > > > > > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > > > --tim > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >
