Database size limitations?

[jpirola]

Does anyone know how robust zencart is? I have a database of 100,000 items that I would like to sell and am wondering if it is well written enough to handle the size without grinding to a halt?

I have tried a version of osCommerce (creLoaded) and they were shocked that I wanted to use over 20,000 items, but said it should work - It was a dog...

Has anyone had experience with a large dataset? I'm not as worried about having too many visitors as I am worried that the code is programmed well enough to accomodate the data.

Anyone? And might it work under shared hosting?

Thank you!
Joe

[mrcoolboy15]

Well i think you should give it a try you can upload your products pretty easily with easypopulate and try it. You probably go with a dedicated host, or a shared host with very few sharing. It is going to put some demand on your database program.

[gjh42]

The thing that is reported to really slow Zen Cart down is large numbers of attributes (20-30 per product) on many thousands of products.

For a large db, high quality hosting is a must. You may want to investigate the ZC-certified hosts.

Version 1.4, due out later this year, improves the db efficiency tremendously (see the Roadmap Update September 2007.)

[Website Rob]

Does anyone know how robust zencart is? I have a database of 100,000 items that I would like to sell and am wondering if it is well written enough to handle the size without grinding to a halt?

Anyone? And might it work under shared hosting?

Thank you!
Joe

A site of that nature -- no matter what Shopping Cart script is used -- would probably be too large for a Shared Hosting account. Best to look into your own VPS or Dedicated Server.