[ic] Scalable

interchange-users@interchange.redhat.com interchange-users@interchange.redhat.com
Fri Mar 15 18:14:48 2002


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joshua Eckert [mailto:jeckert@omnitelcom.com]
> Sent: Friday, March 15, 2002 3:47 PM
> 
> I read that Interchange is optimized for only around 100 
> items.  I was 
> wondering if it can scale any higher with an external 
> database (ie MySQL, or 
> Oracle).  Or has anyone seen corruption, or performance 
> problems with more 
> than 100 items in a catalog despite an external database.  I 
> hope this all 
> makes sense, thnx.

The catalog my client maintains is over 1000 items.  I use
Postgres as a backend.  As long as you run statistics
on the database often and have it well indexed, it runs really
well.  Performance is not an issue at all.

Patrick