Sorting views by attribute for pagination - couchdb

Let's say I have 1000 items like this:
{ "_id": "12345", "type": "item", "name": "whatever", "timestamp": 1481659373 }
And I have a view that grabs only a specific type.
View
function (doc) { emit([doc.type], doc._id); }
Parameters
startkey: ["item"]
endkey: ["item"]
include_docs: true
I know I can use offset and limit for pagination. But I'm trying to grab the most recent timestamps first in descending order. I see that there is a descending option but it looks like you only set it to true so I'm not sure of its functionality.
Does anyone have any guidance on how I could do accomplish this?

If you modify your Map function to read:
function (doc) { emit([doc.type, doc.timestamp], doc._id); }
Then the keys in the view will be sorted by type and then by timestamp.
We can then query the view like so:
startkey: ["itemz"]
endkey: ["item"]
descending: true
include_docs: true
To get the most recent docs first. The descending flag indicates you want the items in reverse order, but you also have to ensure that your startkey has large value.

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Nodejs Elasticsearch query default behaviour

On a daily basis, I'm pushing data (time_series) to Elasticsearch. I created an index pattern, and my index have the name: myindex_* , where * is today date (an index pattern has been setup). Thus after a week, I have: myindex_2022-06-20, myindex_2022-06-21... myindex_2022-06-27.
Let's assume my index is indexing products' prices. Thus inside each myindex_*, I have got:
myindex_2022-06-26 is including many products prices like this:
{
"reference_code": "123456789",
"price": 10.00
},
...
myindex_2022-06-27:
{
"reference_code": "123456789",
"price": 12.00
},
I'm using this query to get the reference code and the corresponding prices. And it works great.
const data = await elasticClient.search({
index: myindex_2022-06-27,
body: {
query: {
match: {
"reference_code": "123456789"
}
}
}
});
But, I would like to have a query that if in the index of the date 2022-06-27, there is no data, then it checks, in the previous index 2022-06-26, and so on (until e.g. 10x).
Not sure, but it seems it's doing this when I replace myindex_2022-06-27 by myindex_* (not sure it's the default behaviour).
The issue is that when I'm using this way, I got prices from other index but it seems to use the oldest one. I would like to get the newest one instead, thus the opposite way.
How should I proceed?
If you query with index wildcard, it should return a list of documents, where every document will include some meta fields as _index and _id.
You can sort by _index, to make elastic search return the latest document at position [0] in your list.
const data = await elasticClient.search({
index: myindex_2022-*,
body: {
query: {
match: {
"reference_code": "123456789"
}
}
sort : { "_index" : "desc" },
}
});

CouchDB Count Reduce with timestamp filtering

Let's say I have documents like so:
{
_id: "a98798978s978dd98d",
type: "signature",
uid: "u12345",
category: "cat_1",
timestamp: UNIX_TIMESTAMP
}
My goal is to be able to count all signature's created by a certain uid but being able to filter by timestamp
Thanks to Alexis, I've gotten to this far with a reduce _count function:
function (doc) {
if (doc.type === "signature") {
emit([doc.uid, doc.timestamp], 1);
}
}
With the following queries:
start_key=[null,lowerTimestamp]
end_key=[{},higherTimestamp]
reduce=true
group_level=1
Response:
{
"rows": [
{
"key": [ "u11111" ],
"value": 3
},
{
"key": [ "u12345" ],
"value": 26
}
]
}
It counts the uid correctly but the filter doesn't work properly. At first I thought it might be a CouchDB 2.2 bug, but I tried on Cloudant and I got the same response.
Does anyone have any ideas on how I could get this to work with being ale to filter timestamps?
When using compound keys in MapReduce (i.e. the key is an array of things), you cannot query a range of keys with a "leading" array element missing. i.e. you can query a range of uuids and get the results ordered by timestamp, but your use-case is the other way round - you want to query uuids by time.
I'd be tempted to put time first in the array, but unix timestamps are not so good for grouping ;). I don't known the ins and outs of your application but if you were to index a date instead of a timestamp like so:
function (doc) {
if (doc.type === "signature") {
var date = new Date(doc.timestamp)
var datestr = date.toISOString().split('T')[0]
emit([datestr, doc.uuid], 1);
}
}
This would allow you to query a range of dates (to the resolution of a whole day):
?startkey=["2018-01-01"]&endkey=["2018-02-01"]&group_level=2
albeit with your uuids grouped by day.

mongodb sort by dynamic property [duplicate]

I have a Mongo collection of messages that looks like this:
{
'recipients': [],
'unRead': [],
'content': 'Text'
}
Recipients is an array of user ids, and unRead is an array of all users who have not yet opened the message. That's working as intended, but I need to query the list of all messages so that it returns the first 20 results, prioritizing the unread ones first, something like:
db.messages.find({recipients: {$elemMatch: userID} })
.sort({unRead: {$elemMatch: userID}})
.limit(20)
But that doesn't work. What's the best way to prioritize results based on whether they fit a certain criteria?
If you want to "weight" results by certain criteria or have any kind of "calculated value" within a "sort", then you need the .aggregate() method instead. This allows "projected" values to be used in the $sort operation, for which only a present field in the document can be used:
db.messages.aggregate([
{ "$match": { "messages": userId } },
{ "$project": {
"recipients": 1,
"unread": 1,
"content": 1,
"readYet": {
"$setIsSubset": [ [userId], "$unread" ] }
}
}},
{ "$sort": { "readYet": -1 } },
{ "$limit": 20 }
])
Here the $setIsSubset operator allows comparison of the "unread" array with a converted array of [userId] to see if there are any matches. The result will either be true where the userId exists or false where it does not.
This can then be passed to $sort, which orders the results with preference to the matches ( decending sort is true on top ), and finally $limit just returns the results up to the amount specified.
So in order to use a calulated term for "sort", the value needs to be "projected" into the document so it can be sorted upon. The aggregation framework is how you do this.
Also note that $elemMatch is not required just to match a single value within an array, and you need only specify the value directly. It's purpose is where "multiple" conditions need to be met on a single array element, which of course does not apply here.

How do I query a complex key in pouchDB?

If I was to make a get request, I'd do something like:
https://myserver.com/sometestdb/_design/sortJob/_view/index?limit=100&reduce=false&startkey=["job_price"]&endkey=["job_price", {}]
For a map query like:
function(doc) {
if (doc.data.type === "job") {
emit(["job_ref", doc.data.ref], null);
emit(["job_price", doc.data.price], null);
}
}
How would I replicate the query using pouchDb query? I've tried a few things around the start and end keys but no luck:
{
include_docs: true,
startkey: 'job_price',
endkey: 'job_price,{}'
}
{
include_docs: true,
startkey: 'job_price',
endkey: 'job_price\uffff'
}
Both of these return 0 results whereas the link I use produces the expected results.
Note: I can confirm the data is present in my pouchDB as I've queried it using the pouch-find plugin but am trying various techniques to see which is faster.
EDIT: According to the complex keys section in the docs, I should be able to do the following:
{
include_docs: true,
startkey: '[\'job_price\']',
endkey: '[\'job_price\',{}]'
}
But that results in:
No rows can match your key range, reverse your start_key and end_key
or set {descending : true}
But I should be able to get results like this and don't want descending: true.
Ok, so it was my reading of the documentation that was off.
When building the start / end key, you need to pass the array, not pass the array as a string (which I thought pouchDB then eval'd.
This is the working query:
{
include_docs: true,
startkey: ['job_price'],
endkey: ['job_price', {}]
}
Posting this answer rather than deleting the question as it might help someone else.

CouchDB - Map Reduce similar to SQL Group by

Consider following sample documents stored in CouchDB
{
"_id":....,
"rev":....,
"type":"orders",
"Period":"2013-01",
"Region":"East",
"Category":"Stationary",
"Product":"Pen",
"Rate":1,
"Qty":10,
"Amount":10
}
{
"_id":....,
"rev":....,
"type":"orders",
"Period":"2013-02",
"Region":"South",
"Category":"Food",
"Product":"Biscuit",
"Rate":7,
"Qty":5,
"Amount":35
}
Consider following SQL query
SELECT Period, Region,Category, Product, Min(Rate),Max(Rate),Count(Rate), Sum(Qty),Sum(Amount)
FROM Sales
GROUP BY Period,Region,Category, Product;
Is it possible to create map/reduce views in couchdb equivalent to the above SQL query and to produce output like
[
{
"Period":"2013-01",
"Region":"East",
"Category":"Stationary",
"Product":"Pen",
"MinRate":1,
"MaxRate":2,
"OrdersCount":20,
"TotQty":1000,
"Amount":1750
},
{
...
}
]
Up front, I believe #benedolph's answer is best-practice and best-case-scenario. Each reduce should ideally return 1 scalar value to keep the code as simple as possible.
However, it is true you'd have to issue multiple queries to retrieve the full resultset described by your question. If you don't have the option to run queries in parallel, or it is really important to keep the number of queries down it is possible to do it all at once.
Your map function will remain pretty simple:
function (doc) {
emit([ doc.Period, doc.Region, doc.Category, doc.Product ], doc);
}
The reduce function is where it gets lengthy:
function (key, values, rereduce) {
// helper function to sum all the values of a specified field in an array of objects
function sumField(arr, field) {
return arr.reduce(function (prev, cur) {
return prev + cur[field];
}, 0);
}
// helper function to create an array of just a single property from an array of objects
// (this function came from underscore.js, at least it's name and concept)
function pluck(arr, field) {
return arr.map(function (item) {
return item[field];
});
}
// rereduce made this more challenging, and I could not thoroughly test this right now
// see the CouchDB wiki for more information
if (rereduce) {
// a rereduce handles transitionary values
// (so the "values" below are the results of previous reduce functions, not the map function)
return {
OrdersCount: sumField(values, "OrdersCount"),
MinRate: Math.min.apply(Math, pluck(values, "MinRate")),
MaxRate: Math.max.apply(Math, pluck(values, "MaxRate")),
TotQty: sumField(values, "TotQty"),
Amount: sumField(values, "Amount")
};
} else {
var rates = pluck(values, "Rate");
// This takes a group of documents and gives you the stats you were asking for
return {
OrdersCount: values.length,
MinRate: Math.min.apply(Math, rates),
MaxRate: Math.max.apply(Math, rates),
TotQty: sumField(values, "Qty"),
Amount: sumField(values, "Amount")
};
}
}
I was not able to test the "rereduce" branch of this code at all, you'll have to do that on your end. (but this should work) See the wiki for information about reduce vs rereduce.
The helper functions I added at the top actually made the code overall much shorter and easier to read, they're largely influenced by my experience with Underscore.js. However, you can't include CommonJS modules in reduce functions, so it has to be written manually.
Again, best-case scenario is to have each aggregated field get it's own map/reduce index, but if that isn't on option to you, the above code should get you what you've described here in the question.
I will propose a very simple solution that requires one view per variable you want to aggregate in your "select" clause. While it is certainly possible to aggregate all variables in a single view, the reduce function would be far more complex.
The design document looks like this:
{
"_id": "_design/ddoc",
"_rev": "...",
"language": "javascript",
"views": {
"rates": {
"map": "function(doc) {\n emit([doc.Period, doc.Region, doc.Category, doc.Product], doc.Rate);\n}",
"reduce": "_stats"
},
"qty": {
"map": "function(doc) {\n emit([doc.Period, doc.Region, doc.Category, doc.Product], doc.Qty);\n}",
"reduce": "_stats"
}
}
}
Now, you can query <couchdb>/<database>/_design/ddoc/_view/rates?group_level=4 to get the statistics about the "Rate" variable. The result should look like this:
{"rows":[
{"key":["2013-01","East","Stationary","Pen"],"value":{"sum":4,"count":3,"min":1,"max":2,"sumsqr":6}},
{"key":["2013-01","North","Stationary","Pen"],"value":{"sum":1,"count":1,"min":1,"max":1,"sumsqr":1}},
{"key":["2013-01","South","Stationary","Pen"],"value":{"sum":0.5,"count":1,"min":0.5,"max":0.5,"sumsqr":0.25}},
{"key":["2013-02","South","Food","Biscuit"],"value":{"sum":7,"count":1,"min":7,"max":7,"sumsqr":49}}
]}
For the "Qty" variable, the query would be <couchdb>/<database>/_design/ddoc/_view/qty?group_level=4.
With the group_level property you can control over which levels the aggregation is to be performed. For example, querying with group_level=2 will aggregate up to "Period" and "Region".

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