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Re: Limit on number of rows a table can hold?

by David Van Couvering-2 :: Rate this Message:

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Hi, Nurullah.  You say that you spread the database over a bunch of
machines.  Does that mean you're running multiple Derby instances, each
embedded into a process running on a different machine?  Or do you have
one Derby instance that holds a 20gb table?

David

Nurullah Akkaya wrote:

> i have a 20 gb table with over 100 million rows thats growing 1 million
> rows per day. i think it depends on what you trying to achieve my
> application distributes a big database over a bunch of machines so
> running a separate heavy server process was causing me problems and
> switching derby saved a lot of resources and application is much faster.
> but i am sure there is some body else's application that will be much
> faster under DB2 or oracle.
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> Nurullah Akkaya                                                  
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> On Feb 20, 2007, at 2:54 PM, Tim Troup wrote:
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>> Hi,
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>> Is there a limit on the number of rows a table can hold?
>> I am planning on using derby as the RDBMS for a system that will
>> require tables to hold billions of rows.
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>> Thanks, Tim
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