1. A computer system that facilitates lazy updates of a record in a database, the system comprising: a component that indexes a plurality of records in a table in a database; a component that partitions the table and the indexes associated with the table, a partition is created to insert a new record in the table; and an update component that appends a partition associated with an inserted record in the table to a master partition at a delayed time with respect to an insertion time of the record.