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

[Michael Prasuhn]

Keep in mind that most of that has less to do with overall performance
and almost nothing to do with data size, but is a factor of the load,
i.e. traffic that Drupal.org receives.

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.
> 

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