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
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