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Artur Veselovski
6,138 PointsMongo/mongoose update operation speed
I have a simple question regarding performance and best practice of updating single documents.
If I have an array of documents, and each document has many fields (10 to 20) with some of the fields being arrays or objects... And I have an action in my app that frequently updates one single field in one document, say "isChecked": Boolean.
Is there a significant performance gain to make a separate route handler that updates that one field:
SomeModel.update( { _id: userId, 'documents._id': documentId }, { 'documents.$.isChecked: newVal }, function (err, res) { ... } );
Versus simply updating the whole document at once by supplying the document object from front app instead of one value?