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On 26 March 2013 21:01, Mark Hahn <m...@hahnca.com> wrote: > I want to add a link in How-To_Guides to a new page on How-To-Do Partial > Updates. > > Here is the code example: https://gist.github.com/mark-hahn/5238514 > > Here is part of the discussion I took from a thread on the user mailing > list. I will improve it for the wiki page ... > > -------------- > > The concept of a DB supporting partial update is to only send the fields > that need to change to the DB instead of the entire doc. There is a real > efficiency advantage to send a few fields over the wire instead of entire > docs. > > There is also an advantage in having different apps (or parts of one app) > only know about some parts of the doc and never having to know the entire > doc. > > One example: I have three different node apps that modify a single progress > doc in a single dB based on their work. They are only passed the doc ID and > their job assignment when they start and then they mark their progress in > the doc as they go. > -- NS
