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- <jmayfield> hey.. looking at riak for a project, vfx/film asset mgmt.
- i've implemented such system using traditional rdbms backends,
- and it always feels like a fight with complexity
- 13:41 <jmayfield> i am new to this world of nosql etc, but at a glance,
- riak seems like a very good potential fit for this stuff
- 13:43 <benblack> what sort of trouble did you have with rdbms backends?
- 13:49 <jmayfield> complex schemas, for starters
- 13:49 <benblack> what made them complex?
- 13:49 <seldo> jmayfield: the design of the schema is not really
- intrinsic to the data store
- 13:49 <benblack> hrm
- 13:50 <benblack> seldo: kind of disagree with you there
- 13:50 <jmayfield> uses contant need to new data structures, mods to existing ones, etc
- 13:50 <jmayfield> for example
- 13:50 <benblack> are the assets going into the db, or just metadata?
- 13:51 <jmayfield> depends, usually metadata
- 13:53 <benblack> without something more specific i can't really offer much advice
- 13:54 <jmayfield> yeah, i know
- 13:54 <jmayfield> hehe
- 13:59 <jmayfield> well, heres a typical problem.. nested assets, where
- some of the nested assets have data mods per context (how/where they are nested)
- 14:04 <benblack> often best handled in riak with links
- 14:05 <benblack> rather than trying to directly nest in a single document
- 14:05 <jmayfield> right
- 14:07 <jmayfield> i like the link stuff for sure
- 14:07 <jmayfield> feels similar to playing with symlinks in an fs..or maybe i am totally wrong
- 14:07 <jmayfield> hehe
- 14:10 <jmayfield> maybe the fs analogy works foro what i am getting at. you have
- assets (real files) that need to be plopped into collections (folders full of symlinks)..
- with the added requirement of being able to mod/extend the sylinked file when in folder
- A vs folder B
- 14:11 <benblack> sounds fine
- 14:27 <pete_lacey> Hope you guys don't mind if I do a hit and run, but I have a
- question about the ruby library for Riak. Does it support named functions? If
- o, what's the syntax for calling them. Googled around and came up dry.
- 14:30 <jmayfield> benblack, how might one think about something like that with riak..
- when asset b is linked to asset a, asset b has some different value for x? (assuming yuo
- have the time/interest in helping me and my vagueness)
- 14:40 <benblack> jmayfield: don't understand the question. links are links.
- 14:44 <jmayfield> benblack, if asset b has attr1 and attr2, i want attr1 to be somethng else
- when it comes from a link on asset a, yet if somebody mods attr2 on asset a, i get that change.. hehe
- 14:45 <benblack> then i recommend you implement that in your app
- 14:45 <jmayfield> i am just trying to get a grip on how theses sorts of things might be
- accomplish
- 14:45 <jmayfield> sure
- 14:47 <jmayfield> i have just had my head in postgres/mysql for years.. trying to rethink
- this data stuff.. heh
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