WOOHOO! My wrong answer brought out the right one. Thanks for the creative 
solution, Brian!
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Jeremiah Peschka
Founder, Brent Ozar PLF, LLC

On Jul 29, 2011, at 9:09 AM, Brian Rowe wrote:

> This isn't completely accurate. There's nothing to stop you from
> writing a module that reads in a key, compiles the payload as code,
> and calls a function within the newly compiled module. Similarly, you
> can set up the nodes to point to an external library path and run the
> modules from there.
> 
> As far as running map/reduce jobs from erlang, yes, there is an erlang
> API for that using the riak erlang client. You can see from the source
> that all of these operations are available:
> 
> -export([start_link/2, start_link/3,
>         start/2, start/3,
>         stop/1,
>  ... snip ...
>         mapred/3, mapred/4, mapred/5,
>         mapred_stream/4, mapred_stream/5, mapred_stream/6,
>         mapred_bucket/3, mapred_bucket/4, mapred_bucket/5,
>         mapred_bucket_stream/5, mapred_bucket_stream/6,
> 
> https://github.com/basho/riak-erlang-client/blob/master/src/riakc_pb_socket.erl
> 
> 
> On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 11:12 AM, Jeremiah Peschka
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> As I remember it, if you want to do Map/Reduce with erlang, you can only use 
>> functions that have been compiled and uploaded to the Riak cluster. That is: 
>> there's no way to write your erlang M/R jobs on the fly like you can do with 
>> JavaScript
>> ---
>> Jeremiah Peschka
>> Founder, Brent Ozar PLF, LLC
>> 
>> On Jul 29, 2011, at 8:10 AM, Lyes Amazouz wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi!
>>> 
>>> I want to know if there is a way to do a map/Reduce query using pure erlang 
>>> library without (even for the map/reduce query functions) without using the 
>>> Javascript or passing by the http interface . Does riak offers something 
>>> like that?
>>> 
>>> Thank you!
>>> 
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