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DOCS-4703: document database size limit
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creating a capped collection, there is no limit on the number of
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documents.
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.. _limit-database-size:
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.. limit:: Database Size
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The MMAPv1 storage engine limits each database to no more than 16000 data
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files. This means that a single MMAPv1 database has a maximum size of 32TB.
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Setting the :setting:`storage.mmapv1.smallFiles` option reduces this limit to 8TB.
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.. _limit-data-size:
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.. limit:: Data Size
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