> Any way to get an insight as to how big the index is? I can see how
> big my database is (78M with ~11k docs) but I'd be curious to know how
> big that view is stored in memory.
I recently added some extra bits of info to the view information blob
but I'm not sure if size made it in. It'd be a
On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 1:01 PM, Chris Anderson wrote:
> there is actually a separate index directory called
>
> .my_db_name_design/
>
> inside that directory. within it is 1 index file per design document.
> that file size is the actual index size.
Ah, sorry, missed the dot file!
> we're definit
And please note that you can compact that view index as well. For
documents that are frequently updated, you will see a huge gain in
both space, build, and query performance by compacting the view
indices (at least based on our experiences at cloudant).
Also, there was some work on impleme
On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 12:57 PM, Nic Pottier wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 12:39 PM, Chris Anderson wrote:
>>> Any way to get an insight as to how big the index is? I can see how
>>> big my database is (78M with ~11k docs) but I'd be curious to know how
>>> big that view is stored in memory.
>
On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 12:39 PM, Chris Anderson wrote:
>> Any way to get an insight as to how big the index is? I can see how
>> big my database is (78M with ~11k docs) but I'd be curious to know how
>> big that view is stored in memory.
>
> The view is stored on disk. Look in the CouchDB data di
On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 11:10 AM, Nic Pottier wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 10:48 AM, Chris Anderson wrote:
>> The only catch is that you'll end up with a large index file in the
>> long run. Lucene's indexes should be more compact on disk. Lucene also
>> has more stemming options and will gener
On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 10:48 AM, Chris Anderson wrote:
> The only catch is that you'll end up with a large index file in the
> long run. Lucene's indexes should be more compact on disk. Lucene also
> has more stemming options and will generally be smarter than your
> tokenizer.
>
> That said, if i
On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 10:10 AM, Nic Pottier wrote:
> Howdy All,
>
> New user playing with CouchDB to evaluate whether it will work for our
> needs. I have a good bit of experience with standard SQL and recently
> with Amazon's SimpleDB, but I'll admit my brain is stretching a bit to
> get the 'c
Howdy All,
New user playing with CouchDB to evaluate whether it will work for our
needs. I have a good bit of experience with standard SQL and recently
with Amazon's SimpleDB, but I'll admit my brain is stretching a bit to
get the 'couch db' way of doing things.
Anyways, in my particular case, I
