Ask HN: How much data can a 5MB database store?

The Bible, in two different translations, as an MySQL file (though I don't know how optimized it is), with Fulltext Indexes, is 10 mb[1].

So one Bible is ~5.

Does that help?

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[1] http://www.biblesql.net/download

Umm... 5MB minus database overhead?

That was going to my answer, too, so I'll elaborate a bit.

It depends on the format of the database and the contents as well. If all you store is a single 4.9MB image, then there's not much overhead. If you store thousands of short text records, then each one can only have a little data, and will have a lot of overhead.

5mb compressed minus database overhead?

About 5MB