Hi Patrick, Internally the representation of collections and documents is almost identical. All documents of a collection are stored in a single table. With respect to updates there should be no big difference. The only benefit of a collection of documents is the direct access to the documents by their name. If you don't access the documents by name but by their molecule-id attribute then one big document might be an alternative. Jan On Jun 17, 2010, at 10:34, Patrick Schäfer wrote:

Hi Jan,

thank you for your response. I thought that all documents within a collection are stored within one (or several) relational tables?

I am not sure, if merging all documents into one big document is an option. The documents are supposed to be updateable ... does that give a good performance for one large document?

Patrick

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Hi Patrick,

the evaluation plan of your query looks quite bad -- with respect to what could be possible...

If you could use 'doc("tu")' (with a single big document containing all small documents), you would get the result in *no* time, as then the attribute index is used. Unfortunately I'm not aware of the difference in the attribute index with respect to collections...

Regards, Jan

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