Must Riak save the entire map at once? - riak

I read that you can't append to a value in Riak. Does this extend to the Riak Datatypes that have been added? i.e. If i modify a register, counter, or flag in a map in Riak. Must it rewrite the entire map to the underlying value?

You don't need to rewrite all map/set.
see Examples http://docs.basho.com/riak/2.0.0/dev/using/data-types/#Usage-Examples
set = Riak::Crdt::Set.new(bucket, key, bucket_type)
cities_set.remove('Montreal')
cities_set.add('Hamilton')
cities_set.add('Ottawa')

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How do I read and write to the google cloud datastore?

The documentation in google cloud's datastore section is very confusing to me.
I was under the belief datastore may be used as a key-value storage. (Similar to mongoDB) But I guess I misunderstood how its keys work, since I can't use string keys outright, but I need to transform series of strings to a (list) key via some list => dataStore.key(list) transformation.
That's weird, and I don't understand why use a list instead of a string, and I don't understand why I don't use the list outright, and need to use datastore.key first, but I can do that. However, after playing with it a little bit, I discovered that the return value of datastore.key(list) would get me different values for the same list if I run it repeatedly!
So, now I need to somehow remember this key somewhere, but the reason I wanted to use datastore was that I was running in a service with no persistent memory to begin with.
Am I using datastore wrong? Can I use it at all for simple persistent key-value storage?
It appears that the issue was that I used a list that was too short.
The datastore expects collections, which contain documents, each of which is a key-value mapping. So instead of having my key point at a mapping, I needed to set a collection, and in it have keys mapped to mappings. (In other words, I needed to have one more element in the keys list)
results = await this.dataStore.get(this.dataStore.key([collectionId, documentId]));
AND
await this.dataStore.save({ key: this.dataStore.key([collectionId, documentId]), data: someKeyValueObject });

Firestore Security Rule limit field entry

In my Firestore document, I am trying to limit the fields that the users could update to only the ones I allow. I thought about a function that could check if request.resource.keys() contains any keys that are not the ones I allow, if it does, I block update, if not, I allow update. so far, my function looks like this:
function field_limit() {
let allow_keys = ["field1", "field2", "field3"];
return request.resource.keys() in allow_keys;
}
inside the path match:
allow update: if field_limit();
When I run a unit test in Emulator that modifies "field1", it does not pass. I think I am doing something wrong here because I am comparing the whole keys list against the allow_keys list.
What should I do in order to achieve the desired functionality then?
I thought about a solution to iterate through request.resource.keys(), and see if each key is in allow_keys. If one isn't, block update. But how to traverse through each value of a list?
edit. Should be request.resource.data.keys() instead of request.resource.keys(). Otherwise, it won't work.
The in operator doesn't work the way you're expecting. See the documentation for that - it only checks if a single value is in a list.
If you want to check if a list of values contains only a subset of values in another list, you should use hasOnly instead.
request.resource.keys().hasOnly(allow_keys)
This will evaluate true if the list request.resource.keys() contains only values from the allow_keys list.

ComsosDB index. Should I exclude it

In my SQL-CosmosDB I am not using any queries with WHERE condition other than by a partition key + sort by additional field (so a streamId which is a partition key and event position, as I use Cosmos to store my aggragate roots).
I wonder what will happen if I just exclude all paths from indexing in that collection, except maybe keeping the field I am using for sorting.
Alexander,according to you requirements,i think you could consider setting the index mode as None.Please refer to the explanations in this link.
If a container's indexing policy is set to None, indexing is
effectively disabled on that container. This is commonly used when a
container is used as a pure key-value store without the need for
secondary indexes. It can also help speeding up bulk insert
operations.
Of course,you could choose excluding the root path to selectively include paths that need to be indexed if you have special needs. BTW, as mentioned by #DraganB in the comments,change index policy only affects new records,you could see the statements in this link. So it's better to deliberate at the initial time.

Can I update a value of a key in a hash table?

I am new to using hash table, and I want to know how to change the value of a specific existing key in a hash table. I tried to search but all that came up involved hash map, which I am not familiar with, and which I am not planning to use.
I am not sure whether hash tables only enables inserting and removing values, or whether it enables making a change to an existing key.
Also, please explain to me how to do so. (i.e. .put() means insert. what do I do to change?)
thanks.
Edited because, on reflection, the wording of the question seemed ambiguous, and might have assumed the wrong meaning initially.
You can't change the key, if that's what you meant. The key determines the position of an entry in the hash map/table (by definition), so if you change the key without changing the position, the map/table is now corrupt.
To change the key and change its position is simple: remove the entry under the old key, and add the same entry under the new key.
You can change the value associated with the key. There are several possible approaches. One is to just use put() with the same key to update the value; see the documentation for this. Another is to use entrySet() to get the set of key,value mappings, find the entry for your key, and use setValue() on that entry.
Of course, remove and re-add will also allow you to change the value.

what happens if i don't specify the collection name in Corb

I have a corb script to run node replace on the xml files.
If I don't specify the collection, will it remove the documents from the existing collections?
If you are altering the document with xdmp:node-replace(), then the document will remain in it's collections and you do not need to worry about setting/adding it back.
If you are using xdmp:document-insert() to replace the document at the current URI, then you do need to specify the collection(s), otherwise it will be removed from the existing collections.
However, you can use xdmp:document-get-collections() to retrieve the sequence of collections for the URI and use it for the 4th parameter of xdmp:document-insert()
xdmp:document-insert($URI, $doc, (), xdmp:document-get-collections($URI))
Its better to provide an empty collection value, while doing the node-replace so it doesn't alter the existing collections of the document. Not defining this attribute is throwing errors while running the script.

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