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more than 100,000 key/value pairs into a single new bucket in a single
transaction is not advised.
+* Bolt uses a memory-mapped file so the underlying operating system handles the
+ caching of the data. Typically, the OS will cache as much of the file as it
+ can in memory and will release memory as needed to other processes. This means
+ that Bolt can show very high memory usage when working with large databases.
+ However, this is expected and the OS will release memory as needed. Bolt can
+ handle databases much larger than the available physical RAM.
+
## Other Projects Using Bolt