Transform uncompressed Amazon DocumentDB data into compressed collections using AWS DMS
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This article discusses how to transform uncompressed Amazon DocumentDB collections into compressed collections using AWS Database Migration Service (DMS), addressing storage and performance challenges for large document collections.
- Amazon DocumentDB has a 32 TiB collection size limit
- Compression can reduce document size by up to 13.7 times
- Benefits of compression include:
- Lower CPU utilization
- More efficient garbage collection
- Better I/O performance
- Reduced storage growth
- AWS DMS migration approach offers minimal downtime and data integrity
- Optimization techniques include:
- Auto segmentation
- Increasing replication instance storage
- Adjusting memory-related settings
The case study demonstrated a successful migration of a large collection to a compressed format with minimal operational impact.
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