Incremental Reconciliation

Incremental reconciliation is analogous to incremental backup: it is faster than full reconciliation, and does most of what you need, but is not as complete as full reconciliation.

Incremental reconciliation trusts that the information maintained in the account index is correct. Trusting that the list of known account IDs is correct, and that ownership of the account by any Waveset owner is correctly recorded, allows incremental reconciliation to skip or shorten several processing phases.

Incremental reconciliation skips the step of examining Waveset users that claim the resource. Incremental reconciliation also calculates a situation only for accounts that have been added or deleted since the resource was last reconciled. It does this by comparing the list of account IDs in the account index for that resource to the list of account IDs returned by the resource adapter. New accounts are recorded as existing, deleted accounts are recorded as no longer existing, and only these two sets of accounts are processed further.

Because incremental reconciliation is much faster and uses fewer processing cycles than full reconciliation, you may want to schedule incremental reconciliation more frequently and schedule full reconciliation less often.