Storing Part of Riak Object Value in Memory

The disadvantage of Riak’s Key Filter approach is that you end up with highly domain-specific keys, which can be hard to reference, especially if you need to update keys to allow querying new aspects of the data: If you need to change your existing keys, references to these keys needs to be updated too. This is hard to do atomically when you have a key-value store like Riak. Even worse, if data changes you need to update the key, and – again – the pointers to the key, if you have any.

I was convinced that natural keys were always domain specific.

What if… not only the key, but also part of the object’s value could be stored in memory? Then you could write queries that used the object’s memory only and get good performance.

You’ll probably get a document database instead of a key-value store. Next you’ll call it CouchDB or MongoDB instead of Riak. Like this guy.

Original title and link: Storing Part of Riak Object Value in Memory (NoSQL databases © myNoSQL)

via: http://blog.epigent.com/2011/02/storing-part-of-riak-object-value-in.html