Rather than geohashing, you might consider Yokozuna. It has built in geo 
searches.

Eric

On May 19, 2013, at 11:47 AM, Ryan Chazen <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi
> 
> I'm looking at Riak as a solution for handling this type of data:
> 
> A map is divided into sectors, and on the map there are many objects with 
> each object being in 1 or more sectors. (An object can be in more than 1 
> sector if it is larger than the sector). Objects can move, so object 323 
> could move from sector 5 to sector 10.
> 
> Queries come in of the form : Retrieve all objects in a list of sectors. eg 
> Sectors[55, 378, 272, ...] - maximum ~50 sectors per request.
> 
> From looking through Riak docs, 2i indexes would be perfect but they only 
> seem to allow range queries, and not a list of ids.
> Multiple range queries could be used, but I'm guessing this will be heavy on 
> the servers?
> 
> Map-Reduce looked like a good fit, but the warning on the page states "When 
> you want to query data of an entire bucket. MapReduce uses a list of keys, 
> which can place a lot of demand on the cluster." - so I guess MapReduce is 
> out?
> 
> The fulltext search seems possible, but I'm a bit confused if it will work 
> for this.
> 
> 
> Any recommendations, or is Riak not a good fit for this type of data?
> 
> Regards,
> Ryan
> 
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