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zodraz
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7 years ago

Search content limits

  Hi,   I'd like to know if there are any limit / performance details on Firefly – Instant, Full-Text Search Engine for Dropbox.    Let's say I have an account with hundreds of thousands of big ...
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zodraz
New member | Level 2
7 years ago

My scenario is the following:

 

A WPF application which several users are using, and ONE backend with a Dropbox account which syncs the docs and does the searches to retrieve the documents (full text and through properties) , from the backend to the WPF (I can only change the backend due to some legacy apps...)

 

So let's say 3 users upload a 1Gb document and 10 users are trying to search, the lag would be noticable? Would it have performance issues? 

 

Cheers

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Greg-DB
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7 years ago
Unfortunately, I can't offer any specific guidance on what the real world performance would be. It would depend on a variety of factors, and may change over time as well anyway.

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