Each of those continuous query data points would be an insert. I guess if you're recalculating it frequently, those new points would be updates, however, under

Each of those continuous query data points would be an insert. I guess if you're recalculating it frequently, those new points would be updates, however, under non-failure conditions that won't be a problem. If failure conditions occur, hinted handoff should take care of it, or the next CQ run that recomputes the result should make it correct after the failure condition is resolved. Finally, those aren't contentious updates. You're not talking about multiple clients trying to make different updates to the exact same point, which is really what I mean when I talk about not optimizing for updates.