Sorting CouchDB Views By Value

Question

I\'m testing out CouchDB to see how it could handle logging some search results. What I\'d like to do is produce a view where I can produce the top queries from the results

Answer 1

Based on Avi's answer, I came up with this Couchdb list function that worked for my needs, which is simply a report of most-popular events (key=event name, value=attendees).

ddoc.lists.eventPopularity = function(req, res) {
  start({ headers : { "Content-type" : "text/plain" } });
  var data = []
  while(row = getRow()) {
    data.push(row);
  }
  data.sort(function(a, b){
    return a.value - b.value;
  }).reverse();
  for(i in data) {
    send(data[i].value + ': ' + data[i].key + "\n");
  }
}

For reference, here's the corresponding view function:

ddoc.views.eventPopularity = {
  map : function(doc) {
    if(doc.type == 'user') {
      for(i in doc.events) {
        emit(doc.events[i].event_name, 1);
      }
    }
  },
  reduce : '_count'
}

And the output of the list function (snipped):

165: Design-Driven Innovation: How Designers Facilitate the Dialog
165: Are Your Customers a Crowd or a Community?
164: Social Media Mythbusters
163: Don't Be Afraid Of Creativity! Anything Can Happen
159: Do Agencies Need to Think Like Software Companies?
158: Customer Experience: Future Trends & Insights
156: The Accidental Writer: Great Web Copy for Everyone
155: Why Everything is Amazing But Nobody is Happy