Best practices

Follow these best practices when using the Aerospike Rust client API.

• Each Client instance spawns a maintenance thread that periodically makes info requests to all server nodes for partition mapping. Multiple client instances create additional load on the server. Use only one client instance per cluster in an application and share that instance among multiple threads using the std::sync::Arc smart pointer.

• By default, the user-defined key is not stored on the server. It is converted to a hash digest which is used to identify a record. If the user-defined key must persist on the server, use one of the following methods:

  • Set WritePolicy.send_key to true — the key is sent to the server for storage on writes, and retrieved on multi-record scans and queries.
  • Explicitly store and retrieve the user-defined key in a bin.

• Use Client.operate() to batch multiple operations (add/get) on the same record in a single call.

• In cases where all record bins are created or updated in a command, enable Replace mode on the command to increase performance. The server then does not have to read the old record before updating. Do not use Replace mode when updating a subset of bins.

let mod policy = WritePolicy::default();
policy.record_exists_action = RecordExistsAction::Replace;
client.put(&policy, &key, bins).unwrap();

• Each database command takes in a policy as the first argument. If the policy is identical for a group of commands, reuse them instead of instantiating policies for each command.