"Normal" infrastructure issues aside—disk, RAM, CPU, etc—I'd say that the handle server would be the "Y2K" type issue to be concerned about. I don't think anyone definitively knows the limit of the handle server. In May last year I asked about this:
https://groups.google.com/d/msg/dspace-tech/3iPnsHbhCf8/M07NqUoEBwAJ Regards, On Thu, Sep 29, 2016 at 3:39 AM, Bruno Nocera Zanette <brunonzane...@gmail.com> wrote: > That is a LOT of items! How many requests per day/hour/... do you expect to > have? Is it in the same proportion of items? > > I believe that the real problem is the quantity of requests, once the items > will only be another row into the database. But to query over them will be a > real challenge for Dspace!! Specially because it's not build to be > distributed on the cloud. > > Keep us up to date with this, plz! > > Em qua, 28 de set de 2016 às 13:04, Terry Brady <terry.br...@georgetown.edu> > escreveu: >> >> I believe that 20 million items would be a record for a DSpace repository. >> >> At Georgetown, we have more than 500,000 items. A majority of these items >> contain only metadata which may have simplified the issue for us. We have >> found DSpace to scale very nicely so far. >> >> I believe that the University of Cincinnati also has a very large DSpace >> instance. >> >> You may want to cross-post this question to the dspace-general list to >> reach a wider audience. >> >> Terry >> >> On Tue, Sep 27, 2016 at 11:14 PM, Thomas Adeyinka <bigbrov...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >>> >>> Hi guys. I looking to setup a repository which will contain close to 20 >>> million items.. mostly old news papers (scanned) images and videos. I am >>> considering using dspace for this project for my institution. Does dspace >>> have the capacity to take over 20 million items (all things equal) what >>> database and hardware configuration would be recommended for such a project. >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "DSpace Technical Support" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >>> email to dspace-tech+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>> To post to this group, send email to dspace-tech@googlegroups.com. >>> Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/dspace-tech. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> >> >> >> >> -- >> Terry Brady >> Applications Programmer Analyst >> Georgetown University Library Information Technology >> http://georgetown-university-libraries.github.io/ >> 425-298-5498 (Seattle, WA) >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "DSpace Technical Support" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to dspace-tech+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> To post to this group, send email to dspace-tech@googlegroups.com. >> Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/dspace-tech. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > Bruno Nocera Zanette > +55 41 9992-2508 > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "DSpace Technical Support" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to dspace-tech+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to dspace-tech@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/dspace-tech. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- Alan Orth alan.o...@gmail.com https://englishbulgaria.net https://alaninkenya.org https://mjanja.ch "In heaven all the interesting people are missing." ―Friedrich Nietzsche GPG public key ID: 0x8cb0d0acb5cd81ec209c6cdfbd1a0e09c2f836c0 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "DSpace Technical Support" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to dspace-tech+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to dspace-tech@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/dspace-tech. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
