On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 00:31, Dirkjan Ochtman <dirk...@ochtman.nl> wrote: > On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 23:19, Filipe David Manana <fdman...@apache.org> wrote: >>> 2) Can anyone mention how snappy/zlib impacts performance? >> >> * https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COUCHDB-1120 > > So does 1.2 have both the new JSON implementation and the snappy > compression? It seems like all the benchmarks in the ticket are either > compression or JSON NIF, but not both.
Both. They are not alternatives. Compression occurs after JSON decoding when storing, decompression before JSON encoding on the way out. You'll have to test the impact on your workload with each and decide on the settings that are right for you. > > Cheers, > > Dirkjan
