Yes, but that would require me to write a custom search analyzer to parse
this, upload erlang code to riak etc, right? Or is there something I don't
know? Please, elaborate

On Sat, Jul 21, 2012 at 11:06 AM, Alexander Sicular <[email protected]>wrote:

> The overhead would be in parsing. But you could skip all that if you
> prepended constant length data to your text. Something like :
>
> Field:Val field:Val text
>
> Where field and Val length are constant.
>
> Maybe like a guid:100
>
> Where that guid is known to you to be the file size.
>
>
>
> @siculars
> http://siculars.posterous.com
>
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>
> On Jul 21, 2012, at 2:16, Metin Akat <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> I was thinking about this too, but as I said, these text files are
> sometimes quite big.  Sometimes megabytes. Rarely - tens of megabytes. They
> are all "write once, read quite a lot". So having them as JSON is probably
> going to put quite a lot of load onto riak and my application (deserialize
> a big chunk of JSON on every read). Of course, I might be wrong, I'll have
> to benchmark it probably, but I don't really feel very comfortable about
> it. Besides of potentially being a performance issue, it also feels quite
> ugly to me. Have you done this? How big files? How's the performance?
>
> On Sat, Jul 21, 2012 at 7:52 AM, Alexander Sicular <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>> Turn your text into a json obj. Maybe something like this:
>>
>> { size: 100
>> Name: bla
>> Date: 1/1/2012
>> Raw_txt: txt
>> }
>>
>>
>> @siculars
>> http://siculars.posterous.com
>>
>> Sent from my iRotaryPhone
>>
>> On Jul 20, 2012, at 17:49, Metin Akat <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > I am using riak to store (relatively large) text files. I store them as
>> normal riak objects where the value is the text of the file. Now I want to
>> index and search them. All is fine, I just enabled the "standard" search
>> pre-commit hook for that bucket and they get indexed nicely. But, there is
>> one tricky requirement. I need to be able to index and search some metadata
>> about these files. For example date of submission, size of file, type
>> (internal business logic) of file etc.
>> >
>> > I have been thinking quite a lot about this recently. Asked several
>> times on #riak. I got one answer suggesting that I create a second
>> "metadata" riak object for each file, link it to the "file object" and
>> index it separately. That's not really what I want, because I need to be
>> able to execute "combined" queries, like value:<some word> AND date:<some
>> date>.
>> >
>> > So, here is the ideal solution that I'm thinking about.... It would be
>> great if it's possible to modify the riak search index object. After the
>> file is submitted, and after it's indexed, I could just fetch the index and
>> just add some more fields to it.
>> > I see there is a bucket with the search index objects that's
>> automatically created by riak search. So I guess it is indeed possible,
>> though I don't know what to expect. Is it a good idea? If not, what else
>> could I do in order to solve the problem?
>> >
>> > Regards,
>> > Metin
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