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From: Paul Davis <paul.joseph.davis@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 14 May 2012 14:20:51 -0500
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Subject: Re: reducing db size
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How did you insert them? If you did a PUT per docid you'll still want
to compact afterwards.

On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 2:13 PM, Tim Tisdall <tisdall@gmail.com> wrote:
> I've got several gigabytes of data that I'm trying to store in a couchdb =
on
> a single machine. =A0I've placed a section of the data in an sqlite db an=
d
> the file is about 5.9gb. =A0I'm currently placing the same data into couc=
hdb
> and while it hasn't finished yet, the file size is already 10gb and
> continuing to grow. =A0The sqlite database is essentially a table of ids =
with
> a json block of text for each, so I figured the couchdb wouldn't be too
> much different in size.
>
> Does anyone have some recommendations on how to reduce the size of the db=
?
> =A0Right now I've only inserted data and have not made any "updates" to
> documents, so there should be no revision copies to be cleared away.