Excellent news. Thanks. On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 11:45 AM, Johan Svensson <jo...@neotechnology.com>wrote:
> Hi, > > Each unique property name will be assigned an integer value. When > adding 100k properties with the same key the overhead for the key part > of that property will be 400k bytes regardless of length of the > property key. > > We will add some information about this on the wiki. > > Regards, > Johan > > On Sat, Jan 2, 2010 at 4:34 PM, Craig Taverner <cr...@amanzi.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I was wondering, how much space does a property name occupy in the > database? > > I mean if I use a name like 'x' or one like > > 'supercalifragilisticexpialidocious', and create that same property on > 100k > > nodes, would the longer one cause a much larger database, or are the > > property names looked up in a kind of global symbol table? > > > > This is important to me because I load data where the property names are > > based on whatever text the user used in the input file, so that the user > can > > see the same names they are familiar with in the database views and in > any > > analyses. This means I have no direct control over choice of property > names > > and cannot optimize the database size should I need to. > > > > If the name text is replicated in all nodes, then perhaps I need to write > an > > application level symbol table, and use a hash or index as the property > > name. This is obviously not ideal. Any comments? I've done a quick search > of > > the wiki and found no answers to this. > > > > Regards, Craig > _______________________________________________ > Neo mailing list > User@lists.neo4j.org > https://lists.neo4j.org/mailman/listinfo/user > _______________________________________________ Neo mailing list User@lists.neo4j.org https://lists.neo4j.org/mailman/listinfo/user
