Is shortening MongoDB property names worthwhile?

Question

In Blog rolling with mongoDB, express and Node.js the author mentions it\'s a good idea to shorten property names:

....oft-reported issue with mongoDB

Answer 1

If using verbose xml, trying to ameliorate that with custom names could be very important. A user comment in the SERVER-863 ticket said in his case; I'm ' storing externally-defined XML objects, with verbose naming: the fieldnames are, perhaps, 70% of the total record size. So fieldname tokenization could be a giant win, both in terms of I/O and memory efficiency.'