[Spread-users] scalability question involving groups...

Greg Shebert gshebert at efs-us.com
Fri Jan 30 13:12:05 EST 2004


reading through the documentation on spread, i noticed that it mentions
that spread should be able to handle lots of different groups...
thousands even...

my question is how far that will scale?

can spread handle hundreds of thousands of groups?

what issues would one face in attempting to handle this many groups? 

i'm considering creating an event notification system using spread that
is driven off of a database (or several)... i plan to use the key values
of each record in the database to define the group that updates will be
sent on...

in this manner, clients can get updates only for records that they are
interested in by joining a group using the key of the record in question
as the group to join...

the table could have upwards of 700k records...

i know there are LOTS of other ways to do this... i was just wondering
if i can get some filtering for free by using spread's groups as my
event filtering mechanism?

thanks
-greg-






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