Thanks Sean. Makes sense. Are there any external tools available to "optimize" innostore? - like the "OPTIMIZE" statement on innodb in MySQL?
Colin On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 3:27 PM, Sean Cribbs <s...@basho.com> wrote: > Colin, > > Sorry we missed this question. > > Innostore stores its data in a B-tree which expands and contracts according > to the keys you have stored. So yes, when you delete keys, it should reduce > the amount of used space. But innostore also pads the tree to keep it > balanced and capable of adding new keys into the middle, so there will be > some wasted space and small numbers of deletions won't greatly affect the > used storage. > > Sean Cribbs <s...@basho.com> > Developer Advocate > Basho Technologies, Inc. > http://basho.com/ > > On Dec 7, 2010, at 11:50 AM, Colin Surprenant wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> How does innostore deal with key deletions? will it automatically >> shrink in size relative to the amount of keys deleted? if not, is >> there an optimize/compact function somewhere for that? >> >> Thanks, >> Colin >> >> _______________________________________________ >> riak-users mailing list >> riak-users@lists.basho.com >> http://lists.basho.com/mailman/listinfo/riak-users_lists.basho.com > > _______________________________________________ riak-users mailing list riak-users@lists.basho.com http://lists.basho.com/mailman/listinfo/riak-users_lists.basho.com
