Hard disk space requirement of JChem-tables

ChemAxon aa7c50abf8

20-06-2005 10:33:52

A common question is:
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How much hard disk space is required by JChem-tables?


Here is a good basis to answer this question:





Importing the NCI dataset (http://cactus.nci.nih.gov/ncidb2/download.html) 12 times (3003012 structures in total) in SDF format into an Oracle 10g database requires cca 3.5 GB disk space. The same number of molecules of the same dataset takes up 928 MB disk space when imported in SMILES format.