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Max Schireson  
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 More options Sep 29 2012, 12:34 pm
From: Max Schireson <mschire...@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2012 09:34:23 -0700
Local: Sat, Sep 29 2012 12:34 pm
Subject: Re: [mongodb-user] Document size limit (probably a common area of confusion)
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Its 16mb.

You can use gridfs to store things like movies; that is not the intent of
bson but rather a more efficient encoding that json.

So, 16mb of metadata for your movies, or data. Lots of people use (bson)
documents to store eg, an order, or a blog post, or a check-in, or a
product.

-- Max
On Sep 29, 2012 5:58 AM, "Keith Wiley" <kbwi...@gmail.com> wrote:

> I was reading about the 4mb document size limit (which I believe is now
> either 8mb or 16mb, I'm unsure).  I'm pretty confused about this.  The
> whole point of storing data using BSON instead of JSON is to support binary
> data, but binary data is often much larger than these proposed size
> limits.  For example, a photo or music database (ostensibly two of the most
> common "kinds" of binary data conceivable) could easily consist almost
> entirely of files that exceed the apparent MongoDB document size limit.

> Am I misunderstanding the role this limit plays?  Is it merely a limit on
> some sort of "meta" data but such that the actual underlying data can be of
> reasonably large sizes?  Or, is MongoDB fundamentally incapable of storing
> realistic binary files such as images, audio, etc., which obviously can
> quite frequently exceed the size limits we are discussing here?

> I admit, I'm probably totally misunderstanding the situation.

> Thank you very much.

> New 'n confused,
> -Keith

> Cheers!

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