Depending on whether you put the %2F in the document id or the database name the results are different. Using it in the db name will create multiple databases, but using it in the filename just gives you a sort of namespacing on documents.
For example: /mydb/users%2Fuser-1 On Oct 19, 2010 9:10 AM, "Simon Metson" <simonmet...@googlemail.com> wrote: > Hi, > That's the same as multiple databases, the subdirectories just > reflect how Couch writes the data to disk IIRC, so they're handy if > you have lots of data and want to do clever things with your disk (or > something... ;)). You could do that with the document id's, but you'd > still need a view to separate them out, and it's arguably easier to > have a docType or similar attribute that you differentiate on. > Cheers > Simon > > On 19 Oct 2010, at 15:52, Dan Himes wrote: > >> Could you not also put them in subdirectories by including a '/' (%2F) >> in their names? Warning: It's likely that I do not understand this >> properly. >> >> Dan >> >> On Tue, 2010-10-19 at 15:09 +0100, Simon Metson wrote: >> >>> Or put each type of data in it's own database, without knowing what >>> you want to do with the different documents it's hard to say >>> definitively. If you need to deal with your name spaced data at the >>> same time (which I guess from your example you do) then a view is the >>> way to go, if they're orthogonal to one another (you need to store >>> three unrelated, distinct data types) then a separate DB is the way >>> to >>> go. >>> Cheers >>> Simon >>> >>> On 19 Oct 2010, at 13:48, Wout Mertens wrote: >>> >>>> You need to create views: http://wiki.apache.org/couchdb/Introduction_to_CouchDB_views >>>> >>>> Cheers, >>>> >>>> Wout. >>>> >>>> On Oct 19, 2010, at 14:42 , Alex Ivasyuv wrote: >>>> >>>>> Hi, >>>>> >>>>> I faced an issue, with different types of documents in CouchDB. >>>>> For example, I have 3 types of doc in DB: >>>>> >>>>> list-1 >>>>> list-2 >>>>> list-3 >>>>> >>>>> tag-1 >>>>> tag-2 >>>>> tag-3 >>>>> >>>>> user-1 >>>>> user-2 >>>>> user-3 >>>>> >>>>> And issue for me, that they are lie in one layer, e.g. http://localhost:5984/mydb/ >>>>> <here all docs> >>>>> >>>>> Is there any mechanism to decoupled them into different layers, >>>>> e.g. namespace or something else: >>>>> >>>>> {user: [user-1: {...}]} >>>>> {lists: [list-1, list-2, ...]} >>>>> >>>>> where user and list - namespaces for documents. >>>>> >>>>> Seems like I wrong understood the paradigm of NoSQL and CouchDB as >>>>> instance. >>>>> >>>>> Thanks in advance, >>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>> >> >> >> >> Daniel E. Himes, Ph.D. >> President >> Virtual Learning Environment Solutions, Inc. >> 4 Bartlett St ~ Marblehead Massachusetts ~ 01945-2720 >> 781.277.1151 >
