Forum ‹ BigDB ‹ Load properties only, not full Objects

[capitaljmedia]

Hi,

Is there any way to get a single property from a range of objects? Instead of getting an entire DatabaseObject or an array of DatabaseObjects? To save on data transfer I would love to just get an array that has a specific property from each object in my index.

Or does that not really matter?

-J

[Oliver]

Hey,

There is no way currently to limit the output from BigDB -- you'll have to transfer the entire object out. When you save changes though, only the difference from the loaded object is transferred back, so it saves a lot of bandwidth there.

BigDB uses an optimized binary format so there is not much overhead except for the raw data you put in the objects.

- Oliver

[capitaljmedia]

ok, thank you. Good to know