Data Storage VS Data Usage

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While searching for the features to find data size occupied by an application, I found below information.

Data Storage

  • Data storage, can also be refered as File Storage File uploads | Bubble Docs, refers to files uploaded to an application and these files can be found in the Data → File Manager.
    Anything that exists in the database (within the ‘Data’ → ‘App Data’ tab) does not count against file storage, and an app on a paid plan can have unlimited database things.

Data usage
Data usage refers to the amount of data transferred when your app interacts with Bubble’s servers.
This includes

  1. reading/writing data (from storage i.e file storage like upload and download),
  2. API calls, etc.
    For data usage, Bubble.io measure this using workload units. Pricing and workload | Bubble Docs

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Good post, another thing to add:

Dynamic Data (Database Structure)

This is the building of data types, fields, option sets, etc.

While this doesn’t have an obvious cost to the end user, if the database structure is quite large and not set up efficiently, it will drive up both data usage and data storage (if your solution involves storing files).

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