# AtomicCounter capable?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/atomiccounter-capable/5223>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [August 23, 2011, 1:11am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/atomiccounter-capable/5223 "2011-08-23T01:11:47Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![CHI\_WAI\_HO](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e68b1a/32.png) [@CHI\_WAI\_HO](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/CHI_WAI_HO)\
**Post date:** [August 23, 2011, 1:11am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/atomiccounter-capable/5223/1 "2011-08-23T01:11:47Z")

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I want to use EC to count the number of user hits of particular doc,  
is EC capable for counting, or I should use external repository to  
store the count and assimulate it manually with the search results?

Thanks.

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**Author:** ![James\_Cook](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/898d66/32.png) [@James\_Cook](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/James_Cook)\
**Post date:** [August 23, 2011, 1:24am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/atomiccounter-capable/5223/2 "2011-08-23T01:24:08Z")

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ES cannot update a single property on a document. You must retrieve the  
document, increment your value, and re-index the document. Then there is the  
concurrency issue to deal with.

-- jim

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 6, 2017, 3:56am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/atomiccounter-capable/5223/3 "2017-07-06T03:56:19Z")

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