I was wondering that for a given set of data, the MongoDB datafiles in /data/db are larger than the data set inserted into the database .Why such happening in mongoDB ? can someone clear me on this.
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I was wondering that for a given set of data, the MongoDB datafiles in /data/db are larger than the data set inserted into the database .Why such happening in mongoDB ? can someone clear me on this.
MongoDB preallocates disk space, so the actual storage on disk will always be larger than the data set.