Limits
Limits that pertain to the usage of IBM® Cloudant® for IBM Cloud® databases are shown in the following tables.
Databases
Description | Limit |
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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
Description | Limit |
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Number of global indexes | Unlimited |
Number of partition indexes | 10 |
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
Description | Limit |
---|---|
Default | 60 seconds |
_partition/* |
5 seconds |
Query
Description | Limit |
---|---|
Default | Unlimited |
_partition/* |
2000 |
_search |
200 |
_find when using text index |
200 |