Basic Operations on Tuples

You can perform basic operations on tuples such as, Put, Get, Take, Lock, and Update.

Put

 Stores a tuple into a space.

Get

 Retrieves the complete entry associated with provided key field(s).

Take

 Performs an atomic “get and remove” action on the entry for provided key field(s).

A take is a “consume” operation; therefore if two takes are initiated at the same time on the same entry, only one succeeds.

Lock

 Performs an atomic “get and lock” action on the entry for provided key fields(). Can also lock a specific entry directly.

Update

 Performs an atomic “compare and set” operation on the entry for provided key field(s). When used on a locked entry, also automatically unlocks it.

UpdateField(s)

Updates the values for the specified fields without having to pass all the fields to the space.

Get, Put, Take, Lock, and Update are single entry operations. Two additional combination atomic operations are provided:

• Batch Versions of Tuple Operations
  The ActiveSpaces API provides batch versions of the basic tuple operations, which operate on a collection of tuples instead of on than just one tuple. Using the batch forms of the operations increases throughput by parallelizing the operations (including operations over the network).