Is there a maximum number of records per docbase?

I have heard a rumor that there is a maximum of 1,000,000 records (all versions included) per docbase. Is there any formal documentation that discusses that limit. Has anyone seen any complications based on a large number of records (1 million plus)?

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ukdavo

There's an interesting article on this - http://dmnotes.wordpress.com/2008/08/14/how-many-objects-does-your-docbase-can-accomodate/. The comments are worth looking at as well.

Regards

mszurap

The article must have some right info, so for each dm_document you could have 16(a hexadecimal character can have this different values)^8 (8 hexadecimal characters can contain a real ID - without type identifier and docbase id) which is 4.2 billion possible records (if you fill in every id, but I assume if you delete some, CS won't fill up those holes afterwards, so that's the end of the world... ).

Anyway, I already had experiences with docbase containing 3+ million objects, so the rumour about 1million is just a hoax.

pedwards99

Hi there,

I had this conversation with EMC engineering a couple of months ago. Once the content server has used up all hexadecimal characters in generating the "real id" it will start using the remaining letters of the alphabet : a-z, A-Z, plus 0-9, # and % giving 64 possible "digits"

This gives you about 281 trillion sysobjects.

Cheers

Paul

ckickel

For what it's worth, my largest repository is 5,300,000+ objects (10,200,000+ if I include all versions). No complications operating at that level. But, we do maintain some of our own indexes to help with performance. Mostly, those are around searches that are unique to our company. This is all on Content Server 6.0 SP1.