[Koha-devel] Large library

[Ernesto Silva]

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 at 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 at ort.edu.uy
>>Tel: (+598-2) 902-1505 ext. 206
> 
>