Question on view design for both Hierarchy and Date.

[Søren Hilmer]

Hi all

I have documents which has a place in both a hierarchy and on a time line.

So I wish to be able to query a view to get all documents (actually their
value), under a node in the hierarchy and between two dates.

A document could look like this:
{
   "path": [ "A", "B", "c6", "b9"],
   "time": "2010-09-20T23:00:00.000Z",
   "value": 117
}

I have come up with this map function, which emits every sub-path from the
root together with the date for each document:
function(doc) {
    if (doc.value) {
       var d = new Date(Date.parse(doc.time));
       var r = [];
       var p = [];
       r.push(d.getFullYear());
       r.push(d.getMonth()+1);
       r.push(d.getDate());
       r.push(d.getHours());
       r.push(d.getMinutes());
       r.push(d.getSeconds());

       for (var i in doc.path) {
           p.push(doc.path[i]);
           emit(p.concat(r), doc.value);
       };
     }
}

//reduce just sums the values

This allows me to do the wanted query
like, 
startkey=["A","B","c6",2010,9,20,12,0,0]&endkey=["A","B","c6",2010,9,20,22,0,0,{}]

Is there a better (for some value of better like: faster and/or uses less
space) approach to this problem?

The documents are actually only on the leaves in the hierarchy, but I need
to sum their values up the tree, can this extra information somehow be used
to improve the view?

I can get up to 500.000 of these documents pr. hour. would that be a problem
as I do several emits pr document?

Any tips are welcome.

Best
   Søren

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Søren Hilmer, M.Sc., M.Crypt.

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