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Learning Couchbase
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Learning Couchbase

by Henry Potsangbam
November 2015
Beginner to intermediate
248 pages
5h 24m
English
Packt Publishing
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Compaction

Compaction is the process of reclaiming disk space and reducing fragmentation. Compaction is performed on buckets as well as on views. Whenever a client deletes documents from a Couchbase bucket, it creates gaps within the data file. If there is no reclamation of this gap, then the size of the data file will increase and it might have an impact on its performance, as Couchbase needs to handle a large file instead of a smaller, compact data file while performing any operation on it. Couchbase works on the principle of append-only storage engine features. Whenever there are data operations taking place in the bucket—whether it's a write, update, or delete operation—the mutated document always goes at the end of the data file only. There ...

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