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How many items can a Dynamicweb Solution run?

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Hans Ravnsfjall
Hans Ravnsfjall
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Posted on 26/08/2020 13:28:24

Hi

Am building a website that is going to run with a large number items. Probably 25.000 to begin with, but it will increase with time. Altough 25.000 is a large number, it´s not huge - and i would Expect Dynamicsweb to be able to handle it. But I am starting to get worried if backend can handle it?

Anyone got any experiense on this, or maybe somebody has some insight if this will be able to run or not?

 

For frontend, we will mainly use indexing to show contant, so that should run smoothly,

 

/Hans


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Adrian Ursu Dynamicweb Employee
Adrian Ursu
Posted on 26/08/2020 15:57:47
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Hi Hans,

The number of products is not as relevant as the number of properties you have in the system. And by properties, I mean ProductFields and especially ProductCategoryFields.

I am running without issues solutions with +30k products.

Of course, there are other elements to consider: Hosting, Trafic, Custom Code, Integration. All of these have an impact on overall performance.

It is also relevant the number of products assigned to a Group, the number of discounts active at the same time, and whether or not you use Assortments.

All in all, the number of products alone should not be a concern.

I hope this helps.


Adrian

 
Nicolai Pedersen
Posted on 26/08/2020 16:30:34
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I think Hans is refering to Items - as paragraphs or pages.

And it depends on what you will do with them and how you organize them. If you add 25000 items in the same node in the tree, I guarentee something will go wrong.

We have no numbers on it, so har to tell. A 'normalized' tree with 10.000 items distributed in a way so you do not have too many in one go should be smooth enough.

You can easily run into problems if i.e. you have all 25000 items in a navigation and stuff like that. So I would say it depends on how you choose to do it...

Item lists are made for scenarios with many items and does not affect the tree and would be the best approach combined with an index.

BR Nicolai

 
Adrian Ursu Dynamicweb Employee
Adrian Ursu
Posted on 26/08/2020 16:39:15
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Oops!

Sorry.

 
Hans Ravnsfjall
Hans Ravnsfjall
Posted on 26/08/2020 19:15:11
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Correct, I am thinking of pages. So if I understand correctly - if I don´t have to many in the same note, it should work fine?

/Hans

 
Nicolai Pedersen
Posted on 26/08/2020 19:49:00
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In the backend, yes. You will probably encounter some delay when adding new pages etc.

But as I said, we never have tried that many pages. So maybe try it out by creating a large amount of pages

 
Hans Ravnsfjall
Hans Ravnsfjall
Posted on 27/08/2020 07:11:40
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How about Files? Is it possible to have 10.000+ pdf-files in one folder?

/Hans

 
Imar Spaanjaars Dynamicweb Employee
Imar Spaanjaars
Posted on 27/08/2020 09:03:17
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Possible: yes. Desirable: no. The limitation will be mostly in Windows and the APIs to get the files out. Even without a CMS, having 10,000+ files in a folder is slow on a Windows machine. I would try to find a way to store them in a folder hierarchy, by attributes or dates or whatever makes the most sense.

Imar

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Hans Ravnsfjall
Hans Ravnsfjall
Posted on 27/08/2020 09:16:07
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Ok, thank you Imar

Nicolai, isn´t there a limit on the itemsList for how many you can have in the same list?

 

/Hans

 
Hans Ravnsfjall
Hans Ravnsfjall
Posted on 27/08/2020 11:20:17
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Anyone have any experience in running large amount of items in named itemlist? E.g. 10.000+ items?

 

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