Re: Berkeley DB question

From: <bostic_at_bostic.com>
Date: 2000/06/07
Message-ID: <8hlhsr$ti7$1_at_nnrp1.deja.com>#1/1


In article <Pine.LNX.4.10.10006070834400.4288-100000_at_titanic.rtxirl.ie>,   Olivier Deme <odeme_at_titanic.rtxirl.ie> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am storing a large amount of key/data pairs in a Btree+ database.
> I generally have more than one possible data for one key.
>
> My question is, if I store 2 entries with the same key that is, let's
 say,
> 20 bytes, does that mean that the key will be fully inserted again,
 the
> second time.
> That is, the total amount of space used by the keys for both entries
 is
> 40 bytes?
>
> Or is Berkeley DB managing duplicates in such a way that it is able to
 save
> space on key insertion?
>
> This is important to me since I am working with very big databases in
 which,
> approximately 60% of entries have duplicated keys.
>
> Thanks for your help,
> Olivier
>
>



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