Bulk Insert: How to Work With Bulk Insert Operation

One of the features that is particularly useful when inserting large amount of data is bulk inserting. This is an optimized time-saving approach with few drawbacks that will be described later.

Syntax

BulkInsertOperation BulkInsert(string database = null);

BulkInsertOperation

Methods

Limitations

There are a couple limitations to the API:

• The bulk insert operation is broken into batches, each batch is treated in its own transaction so the whole operation isn't treated under a single transaction.
• Bulk insert is not thread safe, a single bulk insert should not be accessed concurrently. The use of multiple bulk inserts, on the same client, concurrently is supported also the use in an async context is supported.

Example

Create bulk insert

Here we create a bulk insert operation and inserting a million documents of type Employee

using (BulkInsertOperation bulkInsert = store.BulkInsert())
{
    for (int i = 0; i < 1000 * 1000; i++)
    {
        bulkInsert.Store(new Employee
        {
            FirstName = "FirstName #" + i,
            LastName = "LastName #" + i
        });
    }
}

BulkInsertOperation bulkInsert = null;
try
{
    bulkInsert = store.BulkInsert();
    for (int i = 0; i < 1000 * 1000; i++)
    {
        await bulkInsert.StoreAsync(new Employee
        {
            FirstName = "FirstName #" + i,
            LastName = "LastName #" + i
        });
    }
}
finally
{
    if (bulkInsert != null)
    {
        await bulkInsert.DisposeAsync().ConfigureAwait(false);
    }
}