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user1658162

Reputation: 2821

can a couchdb's database files be splitted?

Reading couchdb docs I understand there's just one file for each database (excluding views). My question is: what happens when this database gets very big ex > 10TB so that the file cannot fit in a single HD? As many dedicated servers can have multiple HDD could be useful to split this file among multiple hard drives. is it possible? or sharding is the only solution for these kind of situation? thanks in advance

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Answers (1)

Kul
Kul

Reputation: 1239

With CouchDB 1.x, you needed to have a database fit on one disk. However, CouchDB 2.0 (in RC) automatically distributes your data across multiple nodes (assuming you have a multi-node setup) so you don't really have to worry about the size of the database. At least about running out of disk space

Upvotes: 1

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