The reasons counters are interesting are: 1) You send an "increment" or "decrement" operation rather than the new value. 2) Any conflicts that were created by that operation get resolved automatically.
So, no, sibling explosion will not occur. On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 3:55 PM, Daniil Churikov <[email protected]> wrote: > Correct me if I wrong, but when you blindly do update without previous > read, > you create a sibling, which should be resolved on read. In case if you make > a lot of increments for counter and rarely reads it will lead to siblings > explosion. > > I am not familiar with new counters datatypes, so I am curious. > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://riak-users.197444.n3.nabble.com/Read-Before-Writes-on-Distributed-Counters-tp4029492p4029498.html > Sent from the Riak Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > _______________________________________________ > riak-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.basho.com/mailman/listinfo/riak-users_lists.basho.com > -- Sean Cribbs <[email protected]> Software Engineer Basho Technologies, Inc. http://basho.com/
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