[support] Searching/Browsing large term lists

[John Furfey]

Hello,

I am working on a setting up some medical terminologies for searching/ 
browsing in Drupal.  These terminologies are just flat lists but some  
are quite large (250,000+ terms).  I've been able to bring them in as  
individual taxonomies using Taxonomy Manager.  But when trying to  
search them or create an autocomplete lookup via CCK, etc., the  
application crashes.  I assume this is due to a scaling problem and/or  
that Drupal Taxonomies are not meant to handle term lists of this size.

Anyone have any suggestions for allowing search/browse capability on  
large term lists.  Maybe taxonomies are not the tool to use?

Thanks.
John



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John Furfey
Digital Systems and Services Coordinator
MBLWHOI Library
Woods Hole, MA 02543 USA
PHONE:  508-289-7435
EMAIL:  jfurfey at mbl.edu
http://www.mblwhoilibrary.org