MongoDB Document size limit 16mb

Question

Does Document refer to the actual document, eg. the whole collection, or does it refer to the documents inside the collection?

Similar question was asked here: Mongodb collection maximum size limit?

But I dont really understand the answer.

Does Document size Limit 16 mb refer to a single Document inside a collection or to the whole collection?

My case: I am building a dictionary. I have about 20 thousand words, for every word I want to save 6 translations (German, French, Spanish, ect), I also want to save frequency, synonyms, example sentences, definitions and so on. Also I would like to scan a text corpus for a word and save the 15 most frequent words before and after the word.

I did this with 2000 Words and the whole collection size is already at 13MB.

Answer 1

Document refers to the document in the collection. In other words, each individual BSON in your MongoDB deployment cannot pass 16MB limit (you can read more here ). With 2000 documents hitting 13MB, you shouldn't have any problem doing what you are doing.