On 24 Mar 2010, at 01:29, Roessner, Silvester wrote: > Hi all, > > when I store 1000 copies of a pure JSON document (size 245,310 Bytes) in > a freshly created database, > the database itself is 0.9 GB big. > > That is almost 4 times bigger than the actual netto payload. > > Is this normal?
Yeah, you'll want to run compaction to redice on-disk file size. See http://wiki.apache.org/couchdb/Compaction for details. > When I'll move parts of the document in attachments, > will I also see this 4 times increase? It's not the document contents, but the sparse btree structure that causes the extra space to be used. > This message is intended for a particular addressee only and > may contain business or company secrets. If you have received > this email in error, please contact the sender and delete the > message immediately. Any use of this email, including saving, > publishing, copying, replication or forwarding of the message > or the contents is not permitted. When you publish stuff on the web, it's out there. Cheers Jan --
