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layout: changelog
title: "Announcing Atomic numeric operations: Safe, server-side increments and decrements"
date: 2025-08-04
cover: /images/changelog/2025-08-04.avif
tags: databases
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Introducing: Atomic numeric operations

A new Database feature that lets you increment or decrement numeric fields directly on the server, without fetching the full document. It’s fast, safe, bandwidth-efficient, and concurrency-friendly.

Before this feature, updating a number meant fetching the entire document, modifying it on the client, and writing it back, a process prone to race conditions, unnecessary bandwidth use, and extra logic to handle edge cases.

With **Atomic numeric operations,** you simply send a delta (like `+1` or `-3`), and Appwrite applies the update atomically on the server. No full document reads, no conflicts, no custom logic. Just consistent, permission-aware updates that work reliably under load.

This feature is now live for both **Appwrite Cloud** and **Self-Hosted** environments.

[Read the announcement to learn more](/blog/post/announcing-atomic-numeric-operations)