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As a general practice I would advice against storing large data values as properties in Neo4j. A few odd ones can be ok, but for storing a lot of large blobs it is better to store that in some other persistance mechanism. For example on the file system. Cheers, Tobias On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 6:34 PM, Tobias Ivarsson < [email protected]> wrote: > That space will be recovered after the store has been shut down. So the > next time you start up those blocks will be reused. Note however that you > need a clean shutdown to be able to reuse that space. > > As a general practice I would advice against storing large data values as > properties in Neo4j. A few odd ones can be ok, but for storing a lot of > large blobs it is better to store that in a > > We are however thinking of recycling the space for properties > more aggressively in (near) future versions of Neo4j. Since the addresses > for the property blocks are managed completely internally, this would be > safe. > > Cheers, > Tobias > > > On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 2:35 PM, Rick Bullotta < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> If I have a string property on a node, and I overwrite it with a new >> value, >> it *appears* that the disk space for the previous value is still allocated >> in the neostore.propertystore.db.strings file. I say this because the >> value >> happens to be rather large (about 2MB), and after a few writes, I noticed >> the file grow quite large. Will this space ever be recovered? >> >> >> >> Thanks, >> >> >> >> Rick >> >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Neo4j mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.neo4j.org/mailman/listinfo/user >> > > > > -- > Tobias Ivarsson <[email protected]> > Hacker, Neo Technology > www.neotechnology.com > Cellphone: +46 706 534857 > -- Tobias Ivarsson <[email protected]> Hacker, Neo Technology www.neotechnology.com Cellphone: +46 706 534857 _______________________________________________ Neo4j mailing list [email protected] https://lists.neo4j.org/mailman/listinfo/user
