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Unless this has changed in recent years, the BSON format that Mongo uses is more or less JSON optimized for parsing speed and takes more or less as much space a
by svachalek 6y ago
Unless this has changed in recent years, the BSON format that Mongo uses is more or less JSON optimized for parsing speed and takes more or less as much space as storing your entire database in JSON.
JSON is a great format for simplicity and readability but as a storage format it's hard to come up with one that's more bloated.
- yetihehe 6y ago> but as a storage format it's hard to come up with one that's more bloated. It's easy: xml.
- jonnypotty 6y agoWork in the book industry, our implementation of it(onix) is a decent way to allow non IT professionals to encode complex data in a standardised way, but as a way to store and transmit large amounts of data its a nightmare. The only thing that saves it is there is so much repeated data it compresses brilliantly. Ha.