Following the background information in Chapter 3, Creating Secondary Indexes with Views, you now saw a more complete picture of Couchbase views. You learned how a document can be indexed in virtually any way imaginable with JavaScript. Moreover, you now know that you can index a document in multiple ways within the same view.

Reviewing range queries led you to explore Unicode collation and some tricks to find your data. You also saw how you are able to parse collections within documents to create several indexed values from a single document field.

Then we explored compound indexes in some detail. You learned that these indexes provide so much more than grouping. We can use them to query multiple properties and to create an index that yields parent-child relationships.

Along the way, we alluded to some important topics. While discussing collated views, we touched on the importance of key (meta.id) selection for our documents. We also broached the subject of document relationships....