Does CouchDB Databases Extremely Large in a Short Span of Time?

Question

I'm reading Apress's CouchDB Beginning book, and there is a line that confuses me a bit:

It is also important to note that CouchDB will never overwrite existing documents, but rather add a new document to the database, with the latest revision gaining fame and another stored for archiving purposes.

Does this not mean that after several updates you will have a huge database? Thank!

Answer 1

Short answer: "Not really, no."

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