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Is the access of elements within a stream given a key indexed in any way?

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In the worse case, would we need to scan through all the elements of a stream to find the relevant item?

related to an answer for: Time complexity of API calls

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asked May 16, 2018 by maracujah

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Yes, it's completely indexed. All the stream retrieval APIs have proper indexes supporting them, and they never do some kind of full scan.

answered May 16, 2018 by MultiChain

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