Try database compaction? B.
On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 4:27 PM, Santi Saez <santis...@woop.es> wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm doing some initial tests with CouchDB, trying to store 2^32 IP addresses > (approximately 4.3 billions of documents). > > Documents have only required fields: _id and _rev, but I've noticed that the > minimum space occupied by each document is approximately 3.7KB, so I need > +14TB disk space only for the basic scheme without any extra field (using IP > as unique identifier in integer format). > > Note that playing with a simple Python script and a binary data file, this > data can be stored in 16GB space (each IP 4 = bytes * 2 ^32 addresses). > > Is it possible to optimize the disk space for what I'm trying to do using > CouchDB? Perhaps disabling "something", compressing, or changing _rev field > format/size.. thanks!! > > I haver read the manual for CouchDB perfomance, but I didn't get it: > > http://wiki.apache.org/couchdb/Performance > > Regards, > > -- > Santi Saez > http://woop.es >
