If I recall correctly, the web server embedded in CouchDB has an 8k URL length limit.
Adam On Oct 29, 2010, at 4:28 PM, Zachary Zolton wrote: > CouchDB has a max length of 4GB of JSON for the whole, but it's > configurable. Hopefully, your IDs wont brush up against that limit! > > Also, here's another tidbit about IDs and their affect on performance: > http://wiki.apache.org/couchdb/Performance#A_id > > —Zach > > On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 2:42 PM, Ian Hobson <[email protected]> wrote: >> On 29/10/2010 09:40, Zdravko Gligic wrote: >>> >>> Hi Folks, >>> >>> (1) How long can _id value be? >> >> If it will handle anything longer than a UUID - and that would be easy to >> test with a running system - then I expect there is no practical limit. >>> >>> (2) Is there an optimal length - performance wise ? >> >> Yes - its what fits your application best. >> >> Any performance change from optimisation will be so small it will be hard to >> measure. The costs of complicating your app to do it, however will be *much* >> larger and easy to measure. >> >> Regards >> >> Ian >>> >>> Thanks, >>> teslan >>> >>> >>> ----- >>> No virus found in this message. >>> Checked by AVG - www.avg.com >>> Version: 10.0.1153 / Virus Database: 424/3225 - Release Date: 10/28/10 >>> >>> >> >>
