The short answer is you cannot sort by value the result of you view. You can only sort by key.
Some work around will be to either:
analyze the data before inserting them into Couchbase and create a counter for the values you are interested by (mentions in your case)
use the view you have to sort on the application size if the size of the view is acceptable for a client side sort.
The following JS code calls a view, sorts the result, and prints the 10 hottest subjects (hashtags):
var http = require('http');
var options = {
host: '127.0.0.1',
port: 8092,
path: '/social/_design/dev_tags/_view/tags?full_set=true&connection_timeout=60000&group=true',
method: 'GET'
}
http.request(
options,
function(res) {
var buf = new Buffer(0);
res.on('data', function(data) {
buf += data;
});
res.on('end', function() {
var tweets = JSON.parse(buf);
var rows = tweets.rows;
rows.sort( function (a,b){ return b.value - a.value }
);
for ( var i = 0; i < 10; i++ ) {
console.log( rows[i] );
}
});
}
).end();
In the same time I am looking at other options to achieve this