Thanks a ton for your feedback. So if I got it correctly, I have to
set the page_size value BEFORE creating the database ?

On Jun 23, 4:46 pm, Chris Schanck <[email protected]> wrote:
> In my case, since it is embedded, the cache size has to fit in heap
> space of the java process; I wrote some code somewhere to calculate
> and then set the cache size to 1/5 available memory (the app needs
> most). Page size has an enormous  impact; my performance went up 20x
> when I jumped up the page size to 16k pages. Given 100 million rows,
> I'd think about setting it even higher.
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> On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 10:31 AM, Stephane Geney
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> <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Hi and thanks for your answer,
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> > I do agree that it is a large volume of data, but as H2 is great in
> > every other aspect, I was just trying to make sure that I didn't miss
> > anything.
> > I tried playing with the cache_size, and it seems that if you specify
> > a cache_size (I tried 4G for instance), as the index creation process
> > doesn't have enough memory, it exists with an "out of memory" error
> > message.
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> > On a sidenote, as the indexes will only be used to access the data
> > directly (where id2= , and not where id>...), I'l trying to create a
> > hash index to check if the performance is any better.
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> > Steph.
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> > On Jun 23, 4:14 pm, Chris Schanck <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> An embedded database storage engine with 100 million rows? That's ...
> >> bigger than what I would think is the sweet spot for an embedded db.
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> >> Either way, I would look into changing the page size and the cache
> >> size; both can be specified in the connection url, I think, and the
> >> page size can't be changed after the db is created.
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> >> Chris
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> >> On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 2:53 AM, Stephane Geney
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> >> <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> > Hi,
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> >> > I've just started using H2 for my application as an embedded database
> >> > storage engine and it's really working great except for one part :
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> >> > I have a table with 3 columns : id1 char(8), id2 char(8), value float.
> >> > I need indexes on the first two columns separately as I'll do a lot of
> >> > (select..where id1=...) and (select... where id2=...).
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> >> > The table as more than 100 millions rows, and the index creation is
> >> > just too long. Creation of index on column id2 took more than 10
> >> > hours.
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> >> > Is there a workaround ? should I try to create the indexes first and
> >> > then only import data in the table by splitting in in smaller chunks ?
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> >> > Thank you for your answers.
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