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Limits

Limits

Limits that pertain to the usage of IBM® Cloudant® for IBM Cloud® databases are shown in the following tables.

Databases

Limits for databases
Description Limit
Database count 200 on Standard Plan; 20 on Lite plan
Database size Consult the IBM Cloudant team if your database is likely to exceed 5 TB in size
Partition size 10 GB

Indexes

Limits for indexes
Description Limit
Number of global indexes Unlimited
Number of partition indexes 10

Request payload

Limits for request payload
Description Limit
Total request body size 64MB
Single JSON document size 1 MB
Single attachment size 10 MB

If you exceed these limits, a 413 response alerts you.

When you replicate, documents or attachments that exceed these limits don't replicate to the target database. For more information about how to detect replication errors, see Replication errors.

Request timeouts

Limits for request timeouts
Description Limit
Default 60 seconds
_partition/* 5 seconds

Query

Limits for query results
Description Limit
Default Unlimited
_partition/* 2000
_search 200
_find when using text index 200