On Jul 7, 2008, at 20:38, Brad King wrote:
Maybe I don't understand compaction, but based on what I've read this is meant to get rid of old doc versions, and essentially any fragmentation that has occurred. What I'm seeing is for a brand new database, I create approximately 300K documents and the size is 2.2GB. I then run a compact from Futon, and size drops to 414MB. Since this is a new database, which should only have one version of each document, why the dramatic size change?
CouchDB trades disk space for read and write-speed as well. Not only for consistency and having old revisions around. When you bulk insert all docs, or a bunch of docs at a time, you see less usage than when you do single inserts. Cheers Jan --
