Might as well keep this in the other thread you have open, perhaps related.
On 15 March 2012 09:38, Daniel Gonzalez <[email protected]> wrote: > 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?
