Client queries using multiple filters

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I have created two secondary indexes (customer and orderID). It works well with single filter but when I try to chain two or more filters I run into the following bug:

{ code: 4,
  message: 'AEROSPIKE_ERR_REQUEST_INVALID',
  func: 'as_query_parse_records',
  file: 'src/main/aerospike/aerospike_query.c',
  line: 223 }

Here is the query that I’m trying to execute:

var aerospike = require('aerospike');

var statement = {};
statement.filters = [
  aerospike.filter.equal('customer', 'ABC Customer'),
  aerospike.filter.range('orderID', 604221, 604224)
];

var query = client.query('test', 'orders', statement);
var dataCallback = function(record) {
  // process the scanned record
  console.log(record);
}
var errorCallback = function(error) {
  // process the error
  console.log(error);
}
var endCallback = function() {
  //process the end of query results.
  console.log('end!!!!');
}
var stream = query.execute(); // returns a stream object.
stream.on('data', dataCallback);
stream.on('error', errorCallback);
stream.on('end', endCallback);

Is chaining filters supported by the NodeJS client API? Or am I doing something wrong?

Regards!

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Aerospike doesnt support multiple secondary index predicates in a single query call:

Features and Limitations

  • Aerospike supports up to 256 secondary indexes per namespace in the system.
  • Currently does not support “fast restart”.
  • Tuned for queries that use high selectivity secondary indexes.
  • The query predicates available in Aerospike include “EQUAL” for string and numeric indexes, and “RANGE” for numeric indexes. Currently only one predicate is supported.
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3

This pretty much makes Aerospike a cache machine rather than a database. I would love the Aerospike team to comment on this…

Rafi

4

It’s a key/value store so that’s what it works well for, actions on a primary key.

It’ll never be as flexible as a relational database with SQL but you can use Lua to create UDFs that do whatever filtering you need in Aerospike and I think the team is working on adding multiple filter ability in a later version.

5

Can you please share an example on how to use multi query filters using udf.

6

Please see How to use Aggregation? and Record manipulation with more than one filter - lua

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