[development] 115,000 records -- nodes or custom

[Larry Garfield]

I run a Drupal 5 site with just under a half million nodes on a single 
$50 VPS.  As long as you don't run any stupid queries, you're fine.

That said, you can integrate Views to any arbitrary SQL table.  You just 
need to write the views_data hook for it.  There is, or was at least, a 
module to help automate that process.

The deciding factor for node-or-not is not the volume of data, but how 
it will be maintained.  Do you want each of those records to have its 
own view page, edit page, workflow, etc. within Drupal?  Make 'em a 
node.  Is it legacy read only data that will never be updated by a 
human?  Probably not worth the effort to make them nodes.

--Larry Garfield

On 3/8/12 11:35 AM, Cameron Eagans wrote:
> Drupal.org is also running on a cluster of servers that have been scaled
> over a longer period of time by people that know what they're doing.
>
> On Mar 8, 2012 8:08 AM, "Ms. Nancy Wichmann" <nan_wich at bellsouth.net
> <mailto:nan_wich at bellsouth.net>> wrote:
>
>     Let's see, Drupal.org has more than 10 times the nodes plus many
>     more comments. It runs D6 and uses Views. And it is usually fast enough.
>     /*Nancy*/
>     Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. -- Dr. Martin
>     L. King, Jr.
>
>         ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>         *From:* Sam Cohen
>
>         The client currently has a searchable database of a 115,000
>         records written in cold fusion in a separate database on a
>         separate server.
>
>         They would like me to bring it into their Drupal 6 site or at
>         least onto the same server.
>
>         I can do this in two ways:
>         1.   As a custom module running off it's own db.
>         2.  Or I can make it a content type and use Views for the
>         interface.
>
>         My preference is to just use CCK/Views for maximum flexibility
>         -- but I question whether or not it's wise to add a 115k records
>         to the node and other tables and what type of impact this might
>         have on overall site performance.  (Any other downsides?)
>
>         Anyone have any advice/suggestions?  If it was your project
>         would you code it separately or use CCK/Views.
>