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		Jebus on April 14, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: A Year with MongoDB Uncompressed field names - If you store 1,000 documents with the key “foo”, then “foo” is stored 1,000 times in your data set Oh my god. I didn't know about this. And I hate short, meaningless and anti-intuitive field names. Please fix it mongodb devs!

gatesvp1 on April 16, 2012 [–]

This is a long-outstanding bug, over 2 years old now:

https://jira.mongodb.org/browse/SERVER-863

Obviously you can vote for them to fix the bug. But it's been two years, so I'm not sure it's really high on the priority list.

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