Does dtSearch have any size limitations?

Last Reviewed: March 15, 2005

Article: DTS0134

Applies to: dtSearch (all versions)

dtSearch works by building an index of your documents. You can create as many indexes as you want, and in a search you can search any or all of them by clicking on the ones you want to search.

Each index can hold up to a terabyte of data, if you using the version 7 index format, or 4-8 gigabytes of documents if you are using the version 6 index format.  If you fill up an index, dtSearch will display an "Index is full" message and stop adding documents to the index.

There is no specific limit on the number of documents you can have in an index or the number of words in an index.

Each document in an index can be up to 2 Gb in size.

For more information on factors affecting index size, see article DTS0142 "Index Size"

For more information on the version 7 index format, see http://www.dtsearch.com/index7.html