Ah ok. That's good to know. Ya, it would be helpful to be able to store files greater than 20 MB. I have no idea what size files my customers attach to their records. I know some use it to link to video files, although most link just to PDF, Word, and Excel files.
On Friday, June 5, 2015 at 4:09:39 PM UTC-6, Jens Alfke wrote: > > > On Jun 5, 2015, at 2:55 PM, Brendan Duddridge <[email protected] > <javascript:>> wrote: > > I know that attachments get stored in a folder along side the database > file (at least on iOS in CouchbaseLite), but I'm wondering what happens on > the server? > > > Sync Gateway does not store attachments as files. They’re stored in the > same Couchbase Server bucket (=database) as the documents. This isn’t an > ideal solution either, as it limits their size to 20MB, but there are no > scalability issues. > > Eventually we plan to have Sync Gateway use an external filesystem for > attachments, but it’ll be a distributed filesystem (possibly CBFS > <https://github.com/couchbaselabs/cbfs>) that can scale to the capacity > we need. > > —Jens > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Couchbase Mobile" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/mobile-couchbase/8aff09e4-a78b-4aba-8f98-f577cb0740c7%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
