Thank you Joshua, those are great news. I'll try to get into zebra from now on so the big library job don't get me knowledge-naked ;), I really don't know if hiring one of the main developers is even "thinkable", I don't know the budget, mostly because I believe there is no one yet. I'll also try mysql replication/clustering just in case. Regards, -- Ing. Ernesto Silva. Coordinador de Desarrollo Web y Sistemas Abiertos Universidad ORT Uruguay. E-mail: silva@ort.edu.uy Tel: (+598-2) 902-1505 ext. 206 Joshua Ferraro wrote:
Hi Ernesto,
In fact, Zebra can handle about 50 million records, so I think your collection will be no problem :-). However, I should warn you that the learning curve for getting the Zebra version is currently very steep, so plan on it taking a while to get to know the system (or you could, of course, hire one of the core developers to help you out).
In terms of using Koha 2.2 series, I've had very good success in the past with collections in the 300K range, doing mysql replication to allow several 'search' servers, and only one 'master' server that handles all write operations. There may be some scatterd mention of how to set this up in some of the documentation on http://kohadocs.org; if you can't find any, ping me and I'll flesh it out.
Cheers,
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On Thu, Sep 07, 2006 at 04:08:41PM -0300, Ernesto Silva wrote:
Hi, in a relative near future I may be involved in migrating a big library, aprox. 250.000 biblios. I know zebra support is new, but do you think it is possible for zebra to support such a volume of biblios?
What about the old mysql and table horizontal partitioning + clustering?
Thanks, -- Ing. Ernesto Silva. Coordinador de Desarrollo Web y Sistemas Abiertos Universidad ORT Uruguay. E-mail: silva@ort.edu.uy Tel: (+598-2) 902-1505 ext. 206