10. The product of claim 9 wherein the partitioner is further operable to group updates in the set of updates into a partition of related updates, related updates having modifications in common with other updates in the partition such that the related updates result in writes to common database elements.
10. The product of claim 9 wherein the partitioner is further operable to group updates in the set of updates into a partition of related updates, related updates having modifications in common with other updates in the partition such that the related updates result in writes to common database elements. 11. The product of claim 10 wherein the partitioner is operable to identify the relations between manageable entities, the relations corresponding to a likelihood of corresponding updates between the manageable entities included in the relations, wherein related manageable entities have a common database element.