Couchbase 2.2.0 - Count of unique values for specific json field

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Also posted here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/24413833/couchbase-2-2-0-count-of-unique-values

I’m trying to figure out a way to count the number of unique values in a bucket that is not a primary key. Couchbase 2.5 provides a n1ql method to do this. If we use their beer-sample you can issue the following command:

select count(distinct style) from beer-sample

which returns a scalar value of 68.

I’m using couchbase 2.2.0, which technically doesn’t have n1ql. And I want to leverage the map/reduce/rereduce functionality if possible. The reason is that I have 100’s of millions of records and the adhoc query will probably take days to run. Is there such a way to do this?

For the map function I have the following:

function (doc, meta) {
if ( doc.type == “beer”)
emit(doc.style, doc.style);
}

for the reduce I have the following:

function(key, values, rereduce) { var u = {}, a = []; var results = {}; 
if (rereduce) {

  for (var i = 0; i < values.length; i ++ ) {
    for ( var j = 0; j < values[i].length; j ++ ) {
      if (u.hasOwnProperty(values[i][j])) {
        continue;
      }

      a.push(values[i][j]);
      u[values[i][j]] = 1;
    }
  }
  return (a); 
} else {  
  for(var i = 0; i < values.length; i++) {
    if (u.hasOwnProperty(values[i])) {
      continue;
    }

    a.push(values[i]);
    u[values[i]] = 1;
  } 
  return(a);

}
}


This returns an array with unique values but not a scalar count. Any way I can just get the scalar count of unique styles of beers? Thanks.