One more thing… inserting new doc is also not prone to document conflicts since 
you're not updating a document when logging access from multiple threads.

- JK

On Mar 14, 2013, at 7:13 PM, Jim Klo <[email protected]>
 wrote:

> I think you'd be better off tracking access by inserting an immutable 
> document with a new timestamp and doc._id of the accessed document.
> 
> You could then create a view that 'joined' the timestamp doc with real doc, 
> by emiting timestamp as key and { _id: accessed_doc._id } as the value then 
> requesting with_docs=true if I remember correctly… 
> 
> Updating doc to append a timestamp would be inherently slow if you have a 
> high volume of repeat access and cause your views to consistently have to 
> update…
> 
> just my 2¢
> 
> - Jim
> 
> Jim Klo
> Senior Software Engineer
> Center for Software Engineering
> SRI International
> t.    @nsomnac
> 
> On Mar 14, 2013, at 5:56 PM, Stephan Bardubitzki <[email protected]>
>  wrote:
> 
>> Hi there,
>> 
>> I have a task where I need to track how often a doc is accessed. The two 
>> possible ways I can think of are:
>> 
>> 1. add an array to the doc and add the timestamp when it is accessed
>> 2. create a new document and add the doc._id and the timestamp
>> 
>> Which one would you prefer? Or is there a better solution?
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Stephan
>> 
> 

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