Can you tell us a little about the application? Maybe this can help to isolate some boundaries and within these boundaries a easy manner to calculate the size needed.
2014-09-25 5:43 GMT-03:00 Panny Wang <[email protected]>: > Hi, > > We are using CouchDB in our new project but there's question raised that > how much space should I prepare for a couchdb database? > > My simple example is: > 1000 * 1KB document that will be appended to database in the beginning of > each day and each document will be updated every hour a day (i.e. 24 > revisions are kept for a document). > So can I know how much disk space at most will be used in this case? > > I understand that the disk space is not as expensive as before and > compaction can be done every day to save the disk space. But if we don't > have a basis to know how much the disk space will be used, then the whole > system may run into a 'out of space' situation and it is unpredictable when > the space will be run out. > > It is appreciated if you can shed some light on the rule about how estimate > the maximum disk space for a couchdb database. > > Thank you! > > Regards, > Panny >
