How to write a view in CouchDB to represent "not in" or "group by having count(*) = 1"? - sql

Question

Using relational db as an example, given two tables like below, where when rows in tableA and tableB have the same values, they represent the same "thing" but in different "state". So for ID=1, this thing has gone through stage1 and 2. But for ID=2, this thing has only gone through stage1.
tableA (Id, columnA, columnB)
1, "a", "b"
2, "x", "y"
3, "z", "a"
tableB (Id, columnA, columnB)
1, "e", "f"
I want to find all the rows from tableA that don't exist in tableB.
select a.*
from tableA a
left join
tableB b
on a.Id = b.Id
where b.Id is null
So above SQL will show rows 2 and 3 from tableA.
How can I do similar things in CouchDB? Say I have 4 docs that look like below.
{ "_id":"a-1", "type":"A", "correlation_id": "1" }
{ "_id":"a-2", "type":"A", "correlation_id": "2" }
{ "_id":"a-3", "type":"A", "correlation_id": "3" }
{ "_id":"b-1", "type":"B", "correlation_id": "1" }
How can I create a view that only show docs id = a-2 and a-3? I don't want to filter, just want to show all docs that haven't got type B. I could kinda do a group by and count(*) equivalent with view, but I can't do a group by, having count(*) = 1 equivalent.
I'm using CouchDB 3.0.

Answer 1

you could write a view :
function (doc) {
emit(doc.type, 1);
}
and then query the view using the key "A" and include_docs=true if you wanted the whole content of those documents.
If you not only want "A" but "everything but B" you can query from start to B and then from B to end and get all the documents that way.
Depending on your setup it might be easier to query the view with group_level=1 so you get all the keys and then loop through them excluding B to get the rest of the info you're interested in.