On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 9:10 AM, Daniel Gonzalez <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Hi, Daniel. That's great news! Also, I have an update from a CouchDB 1.2.0 >> test. >> >> I have a database here with 10 million documents, most several KB of >> English text. upgrade to version 1.2 changed the database size from >> 38GB to is 9.2GB, or now 0.94 KB per document. >> > > That is interesting. Is CouchDB reducing the size of your stored data? > Compression? Or is the average size of your input data smaller than 0.94KB? > (I am not sure what "most several KB" means)
Well, you busted me. I do not know the average size of the documents offhand, but I suspect it is much greater than 400 bytes, because many of the documents are a few KB (maybe 1kb-5kb) of text strings. But, yes, CouchDB 1.2 stores data compressed on the disk. I am using the Snappy option for the minimal CPU hit. http://code.google.com/p/snappy/ -- Iris Couch
