In-place columns for hot counters and flags

In-place columns for hot counters and flags #

Fields that change constantly — view counters, stock levels, feature flags, ranking scores — used to pay a full document rebuild on every partial update. Marking a numeric or boolean field with "inplace": true gives it a dedicated typed column instead:

PUT /my-collection
{
  "properties": {
    "title": { "type": "keyword" },
    "views": { "type": "integer", "inplace": true },
    "score":  { "type": "double",  "inplace": true },
    "active": { "type": "boolean", "inplace": true }
  }
}

Partial updates on such fields become O(1) column writes — no fetch, merge, and re-index of the document. Atomic-style operators work directly against the column: