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We live in a world of high-definition video, 12MP cameras, and storage media that can hold 50GB of data on a disc the size of a CD-ROM. In that context, the 16MB limit for the maximum size of a MongoDB document might seem laughably inadequate. Indeed, you might wonder why MongoDB, which has been designed as a database for today’s high-tech age, has such a seemingly strange limitation. The short answer is performance.
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© 2015 David Hows, Peter Membrey, Eelco Plugge, Tim Hawkins
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Hows, D., Membrey, P., Plugge, E., Hawkins, T. (2015). GridFS. In: The Definitive Guide to MongoDB. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-1182-3_5
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