You might want to try the "nio" in-memory mode, it's likely to be more
space efficient and easier on the GC, since it stores data off the GC heap.
On Mon, 19 Oct 2015 at 18:43, Csaba Sarkadi <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> It is not really a question, rather an experience summary with H2 (we are
> using H2 1.4.190).
>
> We had a business need for a huge memory cache (talking about 110M
> records), for a faster query option in our statistical queries.
> Finally, we have decided to use H2 instead of caching (with this option we
> have to modify less existing code, so we can go towards with our existing
> JDBC Pooling handlers).
>
> So basically, the cached records are simple ones with 1 long and 6 integer
> columns (so 32 bytes for each record).
> Not talking about the load time (in a simple server, the copy from the
> existing MS SQL db is about 2-4 hours, depending on the current load), here
> are our results:
>
>    1. 110M records in a in memory H2 db is about 35-36GBs of memory
>    2. Simple queries are extremely fast (thanks Thomas!)
>       1. like select count(*) is 1ms
>       2. selecting records and counting them by integer ranges are a
>       maximum of 35 seconds (without indexes wow - it is not really faster 
> with
>       indexes on a normal SQL Server)
>    3. Due to the storage mechanics, memory usage is not linear with the
>    record count
>       1. like 10M records was about 9GBs of memory
>       2. 25M records were about 21GBs of memory
>       3. 110M records were 35-36GBs of memory
>    4. HASH index creation (after the table was filled) killed the server
>       1. => create the hash index before populating the server
>
>
> Hope I could help everyone with these data (If I have anymore to add, I
> will).
> Also, if it is possible, we would like to make some personal contact with
> Thomas (couldn't find your mail, just this mailing list) - so both of us
> could learn from handling bigger inmemory DBs :)
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Csaba Sarkadi
>
>
>
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