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September 8th, 2011 11:00

ClipId: external storage requirements

What is the datatype and (minimum)length needed to allocate/define space for external ClipId storage? hundreds of millions of rows to allocate the field to so need to be as efficient as possible.

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September 12th, 2011 10:00

Hello AEbstein -

The answer depends on whether you are using XAM or the Centera SDK.

XAM defines an 80-byte binary data type for XUIDs.  You could take some XUID storage shortcuts if your XAM app is Centera-only, but then why use XAM?

The Centera SDK defines a 40-byte binary format for content addresses (Canonical format) which is the most efficient storage format but has the inconvenient property of not being directly human-readable in the DB.  If you wish to preserve human readability you will need a 53 character latin-1 encoded string column.

Regards,

Mike Horgan

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