Thomas,

The keys are (theoretically) added in ascending order. But there could be a 
few occurrence of out of order keys.

I will try your suggestions and let you know how it pans out.

Thanks again for all your work on H2 (and Noel's as well :-) )


On Saturday, September 21, 2013 2:04:50 PM UTC-4, Thomas Mueller wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> > MVStore (version 1.3.172)
>
> It is changing quite quickly, I suggest to use the latest version 
> (1.3.173, or even better, the latest automated build at 
> http://h2database.com/html/download.html (direct link: 
> http://www.h2database.com/automated/h2-latest.jar )
>
> > I simply use a Map<String,String> where key and values are equal (since 
> null values are not permitted)
>
> It would be a bit more efficient to use Map<String, Integer> and use the 
> key "1". If you use compression, disk space savings wouldn't be that big, 
> but it should be a little bit faster.
>
> > I really do not care about the versioning capabilities of the MVStore
>
> I probably over-estimated that versioning is very useful. I found it is 
> not that important for the database engine itself :-) But it is nice to 
> have it, for example to support concurrent operations (read, write and 
> store). I will make it more auto-commit and auto-store, so that you don't 
> have to call commit / store yourself. The TransactionStore already does 
> that, and it seems to work fine, but it would be better if the MVStore 
> would do it itself I guess.
>
> > Also I pretty much only add keys (never remove them)
>
> Do you add them in random order, or in somewhat ascending / descending 
> order? For random order, possibly a "log-structured merge tree" mode would 
> make sense (I will need to think about that).
>
> > Obviously there is more in the store than just my data :-)
>
> Well, I guess yes. How often do you call commit() and store()? It's 
> relatively important that they are not called too often. Until auto-commit 
> is implemented, I suggest to call commit() every 10000 inserts, and store() 
> never yourself, but rely on auto-store in the background thread (this is 
> already implemented in the current trunk).
>
> Regards,
> Thomas
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> On Sat, Sep 21, 2013 at 4:31 PM, Igor castang 
> <[email protected]<javascript:>
> > wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I am testing the use the MVStore tool standalone. (version 1.3.172)
>>
>> My use case is simple.
>>
>> I just want to check if a string sequence read from my application has 
>> already been seen previously. 
>> I simply use a Map<String,String> where key and values are equal (since 
>> null values are not permitted). And when a sequence is tested I just test 
>> for the existence of the key in the Map, and add it if unseen so far.
>>
>> The number of keys in the map will go to a billion and more.
>>
>> I really do not care about the versioning capabilities of the MVStore. I 
>> just want the last version. Also I pretty much only add keys (never remove 
>> them)
>>
>> My issue is that the store gets really really big, 100GB+, and I am using 
>> compression on the store . Obviously there is more in the store than just 
>> my data :-)
>> And if I iterate the values in my map and create a new store the size of 
>> the new store is dramatically smaller.
>>
>> Now my question :
>>
>> - is there a setting or a way to use the versionning methods to keep the 
>> disk utilization to a lower level ?
>>
>>
>> thanks
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