I'm curious: what's the use case for pushing 15 million (or, heck, even 50,000) records to the client?
--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, "iloveyouwisconsin" <iloveyouwiscon...@...> wrote: > > Maybe I'll have to wait until Flex 7 (or later) 'til they truly make flex > able to handle large datasets smoothly. (I guess I'll also have to advise > those at Adobe and the flex evangelists that what they define as a "large" > dataset isn't large in practice. They probably need to moonlight as interns > for a few of their customers to snapback into reality. There's no company in > the real world that would define a large dataset as only a few thousand items) > > --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, "iloveyouwisconsin" <iloveyouwisconsin@> > wrote: > > > > How many records is considered "too large" for a datagrid to handle? I am > > using Flex 4 with Zend AMF & paging enabled. When I google it the topic, > > most seem to think that a "few thousand" is large, but that doesn't seem > > hardly anything to me. I thought Zend would do the trick but it isn't > > anywhere near what I need. My 15 million records didn't go over too well (I > > can use the scroll wheel on my mouse to scroll through the records but it > > kept crashing when I tried to use the scrollbar on the datagrid to jump > > around). I ask because I don't want to have to jimmy around with code until > > I'm blue in the face trying to find something flex can handle. Can I do 1 > > million? 5,000? 500,000? I just want to be able to let users play around w/ > > the scrollbar on the datagrid without it crashing, is all (though I realize > > that the user's machine will play a big factor in performance. All of my > > users have computers that are no more than a couple yrs old) > > > > I also ask because I am sure others would like to know for their > > projects....is there a more efficient way to get the data than Zend, like > > Livecycle or Coldfusion? I am willing to switch the backend up a bit in > > order to increase performance of my app. > > > > > > many thanks! > > >
