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by redwood 769 days ago
Large storage overhead should be a thing of the past (8+ years ago) with wiredtiger's automatic compression.
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paperwhite 769 days ago
Overhead comes from the BSON format

Even after the wiredtiger auto-compression, the basic overhead doesn't have a workaround

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redwood 768 days ago
Can you point out what you mean? Are you worried about memory pressure for the decompressed filesystem cache or storage footprint, or perhaps something else like data returned to your application?
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