diff --git a/Filer-as-a-Key-Large-Value-Store.md b/Filer-as-a-Key-Large-Value-Store.md index 0e847a3..aeade0a 100644 --- a/Filer-as-a-Key-Large-Value-Store.md +++ b/Filer-as-a-Key-Large-Value-Store.md @@ -8,7 +8,9 @@ There are two tricks: * Configure to store small values in filer store. E.g., `weed filer -cacheToFilerLimit=1024` will store values less than 1KB to filer itself. * Configure for [[Super Large Directories]] -This way, values less than 1KB is basically the same as the underlying key-value store, while the larger values are physically stored on volume servers. +This way, values less than 1KB is basically the same as the underlying key-value store, while the larger values are physically stored on volume servers, reducing the storage load. + +With the larger values offloaded, the underlying key-value store will also perform better with less bytes to move around. # Benchmark with YCSB as a Key-Value store