Measuring Riak disk usage

2013-04-09 Thread Ben McCann
Hi, I'm currently storing data in MongoDB and would like to evaluate Riak as an alternative. Riak is appealing to me because LevelDB uses Snappy, so I would expect it to take less disk space to store my data set than MongoDB which does not use compression. However, when I benchmarked it by inserti

Re: Measuring Riak disk usage

2013-04-10 Thread Ben McCann
to other compression > libraries such as zlib, etc. That said, for sufficiently large JSON files I > know that BSON's prefixes can add significant overhead to object sizes such > that BSON is actually heavier than the JSON it represents. What is the > average size of the document

Re: Measuring Riak disk usage

2013-04-10 Thread Ben McCann
ess even more, but at the cost of random > read performance. We can try that next. > > Matthew > > > > > On Apr 10, 2013, at 12:31 PM, Ben McCann wrote: > > Thanks for the help. If I were saving three copies of the data in Riak > that would certainly explain it! I ins

Re: Measuring Riak disk usage

2013-04-10 Thread Ben McCann
Cool. Thanks for the explanation. On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 10:55 AM, Reid Draper wrote: > > On Apr 10, 2013, at 1:45 PM, Jeremiah Peschka > wrote: > > If you've installed from the apt/yum repository you've installed a single > Riak node on your machine. Riak, though, is configured by default to