Append / performance

Hello!
I’m aware of http://developer.couchbase.com/documentation/server/4.1/developer-guide/raw-append-prepend.html#story-h2-2.

But, is there “a known and recommended way” or any alternative (and more efficient) way to work with large append()-logs?
Of course, there are sharding, “compression-on-the-fly”, “log entries as separate docs” and so on, but is there something integrated ?