I've not tried it myself but maybe take a look at the couchdb lucene project http://github.com/rnewson/couchdb-lucene It may help with your autocomplete search Sent from my iPhone
On 13 Apr 2010, at 23:11, Jon Gretar Borgthorsson <[email protected] > wrote: > To be honest then in this exact case as you describe it I would skip > sorting > it in CouchDB and sort it on the client side. It's a very simple > solution > that can probably be done in a single line of code. I might even > check and > see if the autocomplete plugin you use simply offers to do that for > you. > > When in doubt always do what has the least amount of code my great > grandfather used to tell me. ;) > > On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 8:38 AM, Magnus Ottosson > <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Oh, I should have made that more clear. I will use this to >> autocomplete a searchbox. So when the user start typing I will search >> for the cities that matches the string. The user might type "new". >> Then I want to fetch the 10 largest cities based on population where >> the name starts with "new". >> >> If I just wanted to search for the name I could have created an index >> with the name as the key and searched like this: >> startkey="new"&endkey="new\u9999" and this would have matched all the >> cities with the name string with new. Right? >> >> I want to sort this result by population in descending order so I can >> fetch the 10 largest cities matching the input. >> >> Magnus >> >> >> >> On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 10:31 AM, Sebastian Cohnen >> <[email protected]> wrote: >>> hmm, I do not quite follow... isn't the name of the city unique? >>> what do >> you mean by *searching* for a city? >>> >>> On 12.04.2010, at 10:25, Magnus Ottosson wrote: >>> >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> I have a database with the names and population of cities (about 7 >>>> million entities). Is it possible, with couchdb, to create a key >>>> that >>>> includes both cityname and population where I can search for a name >>>> and get the matching results ordered by the population? >>>> >>>> I tried to create a key like [population, name] and search like >>>> this >>>> ?startkey=[0, "name"]&endkey=[10000000, "name]&limit=10 but it does >>>> not work like the way I hoped. >>>> >>>> Any ideas? >>>> >>>> Magnus >>> >>> >>
