Are bins that are not indexed stored in memory?

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Hi,

I am going through the server memory requirements and I believe only primary key and indexes drive the memory requirements. Is that correct?

Thanks.

Regards,

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Thanks for your question.

For the use cases where data is not stored in memory you are almost correct. Let me explain a bit more:

1- Data not in memory. See details here for storage configuration. Basically, the assumption I am making is that you have data-in-memory false (or not set at all as default is false) and you are not using storage-engine memory either of course.

2- By default, Aerospike does not store the primary key, but rather only a hash of it using the RIPEMD-160 algorithm wich will take a key of any length and return a 20 bytes digest. Even if the primary key is specified (through client policy) to be stored, it will not be stored in the index.

Having gone over the previous 2 points, yes, only primary index (fixed 64 bytes per record) and potential secondary indices will drive memory requirements. See details here for storage capacity planning.