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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 documents, most of them PDFs and docx, from 100Mb to 2Gb...
Are there any penalties on user the files/search endpoint API, or those are properly indexed and they are gonna be instantly retrieved?
Thanks
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- Greg-DB
Dropbox Community Moderator
There isn't a limit, but note that the results from /2/files/search are subject to a delay due to indexing, so results for new files/file versions will not be instantly available. The length of the lag will vary account to account, and is likely to be larger if there are many files or a lot of file activity.
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
- Greg-DBUnfortunately, 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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