How did you insert them? If you did a PUT per docid you'll still want to compact afterwards.
On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 2:13 PM, Tim Tisdall <[email protected]> wrote: > I've got several gigabytes of data that I'm trying to store in a couchdb on > a single machine. I've placed a section of the data in an sqlite db and > the file is about 5.9gb. I'm currently placing the same data into couchdb > and while it hasn't finished yet, the file size is already 10gb and > continuing to grow. The sqlite database is essentially a table of ids with > a json block of text for each, so I figured the couchdb wouldn't be too > much different in size. > > Does anyone have some recommendations on how to reduce the size of the db? > Right now I've only inserted data and have not made any "updates" to > documents, so there should be no revision copies to be cleared away.
