Ask HN: How much data can a 5MB database store?

by grep on 8/17/2010, 11:51 PM with 5 comments

How much data can a 5MB database store?

  • by shawndumas on 8/18/2010, 1:40 AM

    The Bible, in two different translations, as an MySQL file (though I don't know how optimized it is), with Fulltext Indexes, is 10 mb[1].

     

    So one Bible is ~5.

        

    Does that help?

     

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    [1] http://www.biblesql.net/download

  • by cperciva on 8/17/2010, 11:55 PM

    Umm... 5MB minus database overhead?

  • by andrewstuart on 8/18/2010, 3:20 AM

    About 5MB