On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 2:00 PM, Daniel Gonzalez <[email protected]> wrote: > I understand the overheads that you are referring to, but it still schocks > me that Couchdb needs 8 times as much space to store the data.
Indeed. It is shocking. CouchDB stores two indexes: the ID index (documents sorted by _id) and the sequence index (documents sorted by when they were changed, for replication). Understanding of the overheads that I mention, how many total bytes would you say is reasonable for a 319-byte object? -- Iris Couch
