# \#counter

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## [Apply HLL Union with externally provided HLL](https://discuss.aerospike.com/t/apply-hll-union-with-externally-provided-hll/9963)

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**Author:** [@dragondgold](https://discuss.aerospike.com/u/dragondgold)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [January 14, 2023, 9:52pm UTC](https://discuss.aerospike.com/t/apply-hll-union-with-externally-provided-hll/9963 "2023-01-14T21:52:36Z")

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Hi! I have a use case where I’m receiving a lot of ids at a very high rate and updating an HLL (with MinHash) key in Aerospike, the problem is it’s causing hot key errors due to the incoming speed of the events. I’m now…

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## [Mongo upsert-like capability?](https://discuss.aerospike.com/t/mongo-upsert-like-capability/915)

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**Author:** [@Joshua\_Buss](https://discuss.aerospike.com/u/Joshua_Buss)\
**Replies:** 24\
**Last updated:** [March 10, 2015, 8:56pm UTC](https://discuss.aerospike.com/t/mongo-upsert-like-capability/915 "2015-03-10T20:56:51Z")

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I’m curious what the best way to do something functionality similar to what MongoDB’s upsert gives you. We need to take in values (integers) at a very high rate and slot them into the appropriate key value pairs. This …

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## [How do incrementations work on bins containing maps that contain counters](https://discuss.aerospike.com/t/how-do-incrementations-work-on-bins-containing-maps-that-contain-counters/3101)

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**Author:** [@the\_beest](https://discuss.aerospike.com/u/the_beest)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [June 27, 2016, 2:31pm UTC](https://discuss.aerospike.com/t/how-do-incrementations-work-on-bins-containing-maps-that-contain-counters/3101 "2016-06-27T14:31:01Z")

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Do I have to read the counters in order to increment them? If not, are incrementations on counters in maps atomic? How well would Aerospike scale with this counter configuration if my AWS instance only used EBS storage…