Performance limitation of images-as-nodes
Posted by dontmcyn on February 11, 2010 at 3:58am
Hi everyone,
I'm planning to build galleries with the image-as-node approach, but I'm worried about the performance since I do have around 600,000 images and the number is increasing everyday. Here it says:
"It is theoretically possible that, for sites with lots (say hundreds of thousands) of images, storing them all as individual nodes could result in a performance hit from the extra database overhead." (from http://drupal.org/node/325688).
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