[doc] clarify what we mean with "big data set"

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/docs/benchmarks.rst b/docs/benchmarks.rst
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@@ -71,10 +71,10 @@ sizes are in KB):
 Test scenarios
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-Ideally, we would want to run tests for a big data set, but that may be
-infeasible given time and resource limitations. Because of that, we choose a
-smaller data set and suppose that the behaviour is somewhat linear to get an
-idea for larger sets.
+Ideally, we would want to run tests for a big data set (i.e. a high number of
+documents and a big payload size), but that may be infeasible given time and
+resource limitations. Because of that, we choose a smaller data set and suppose
+that the behaviour is somewhat linear to get an idea for larger sets.
 
 Supposing a data set size of 10MB, some possibilities for number of documents
 and document sizes for testing download and upload are: