Add a utility function for atomic updates

Doing a single-row atomic update is often possible in distributed
databases like Apache Cassandra, but more complex multi-row updates
aren't supported.  Create a variant of updating that makes the
single row case easy to use and identify.

Change-Id: Ibd500d93e5a771e370d78c7f88c10f5d439feb32
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <sop@google.com>
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