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

documentStore.bulkInsert([database]);

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.

Example

Create bulk insert

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

{
    const bulkInsert = documentStore.bulkInsert();
    for (let i = 0; i < 1000000; i++) {
        const employee = new Employee("FirstName #" + i, "LastName #" + i);
        await bulkInsert.store(employee);
    }

    await bulkInsert.finish();
}