http://simonwillison.net/2009-06-30T19:28:43+00:00Simon Willison2009-06-30T19:28:43+00:002009-06-30T19:28:43+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2009/Jun/30/analytics/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="http://www.10gen.com/blog/2009/3/using-mongo-for-real-time-analytics">Using Mongo for Real-Time Analytics</a></strong></p> MongoDB supports an “upsert” query, which when combined with the $inc operator can cause counter fields to be incremented if they exist and created otherwise. This makes it a great fit for real-time analytics applications (one increment per page view), something that regular relational databases aren’t particularly good at. <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/counters">counters</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/databases">databases</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/increment">increment</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/mongodb">mongodb</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/upsert">upsert</a></p>