What is the overhead of an empty namespace?

Feature Discussion
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I read somewhere that it is not possible to create namespaces dynamically. Does this still hold? If one creates empty namespaces, what is the memory overhead per namespace?

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hi sid,

Yes, Aerospike at the moment does not support creating namespaces dynamically.

In the community edition, there is no fast start, hence no shared memory arena. So the overhead of a non-used namespace is minimal (30-40MB).

In enterprise edition with fast-restart, each namespace creates a 1GB shared memory arena, hence overhead of each namespace will be 1GB.