mongodb: emulating couchdb's incremental map reduce

Question

Are there any techniques for emulating couchdb's incremental MapReduce in Mongodb. Essentially, we want to a periodic map reduce to only touch new documents in a collection.

Could we use finalize to mark documents as 'old' and then filter them out of the next map process?

Answer 1

Yes, there is support for incremental map reduce since MongoDB 1.8. See the writeup I did for examples: http://blog.evilmonkeylabs.com/2011/01/27/MongoDB-1_8-MapReduce/