Hi, I am creating a disk space watchdog for my app which uses couchbase server 6.0 community on a single node. I’d like to delete older documents if the occupied disk space for couchbase data exceeds a threshold. Is there a recommended way to do so? Currently, I am planning to measure the size o…

Check out the docs on compaction. Effectively, with Couchbase an initial delete is really a write of a tombstone, then the file reduction happens later. You can probably tune the thresholds to get what you want though.

The data folder size increases after deleting records

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ali.parsaei March 31, 2020, 11:39pm 3

Thanks! I’ll check it out.

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The data folder size increases after deleting records

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