I have the following document in a couchdb database:
{
"_id": "000013a7-4df6-403b-952c-ed767b61554a",
"_rev": "1-54dc1794443105e9d16ba71531dd2850",
"tags": [
"auto_import"
],
"ZZZZZZZZZZZ": "910111",
"UUUUUUUUUUUUU": "OOOOOOOOO",
"RECEIVING_OPERATOR": "073",
"type": "XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX",
"src_file": "XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX"
}
This JSON file takes exactly 319 bytes if saved in my local
filesystem. My documents are all like this (give or take a couple of
bytes, since some of the fields have varying lengths).
In my database I have currently around 6 millions documents, and they
use 15 GB. That gives around 2.5KBytes/document. That means that the
documents are taking 8 times more space on CouchDB as they would on
disk.
Why is that?
