QVD or DataSource Compression Ratio

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Hello Experts,

If we load 10GB of data to Qlikview what is the QVD file size?, what is the compression ratio? Any theoritical formula behind it?

Thanks

San

[Anonymous]

it really depends on your data but QV is very very good at compression data so it is not rare to see 7-10 to 1 compression ratio. With my projects it was close to 10:1 a lot of times.

What you should worry though is not QVD size but the amount of RAM your final QVW will consume. Also if you will be using AccessPoint/QVS, additional users will consumer 5-10% of RAM.

I think there is a white paper about this in QlikView Scalability space. Sign up - it has a lot of good info!

[Anonymous]

Hi San,

When you extract any data source file it stores as qvd. The qlikview stores data In QVD In encrypted form. So data are compressed In QVD.

If a data source file is of 10 MB size. When its convert into QVD then size reduces up to 90%. So in QVD size of data is near about 1 MB.

http://www.adivaconsulting.com/qlik-view-business-intelligence/item/113-data-compression-in-qlikview...

http://www.quickintelligence.co.uk/qlikview-qvd-files/

http://community.qlik.com/message/476739#476739

Regards

Neetha