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Re: Innodb vs. myisam storage usage *shocked*
Posted by: James Day
Date: February 04, 2005 12:30PM

The MediaWiki software used by Wikipedia and others supports gzip compressed text fields for the encyclopedia article old versions. That reduces their size from on disk 80GB to 40GB for the English encyclopedia. The latest version also supports concatenating several versions together. That's expected to reduce the size to about 15GB when the run is complete.

That's a very specific situation but I expect that there are other users who are already using compression, so if it is not already in your plans you might want to consider how it may be possible to tell InnoDB on a per table or per column level that compression will be unnecessary work.

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