Operating limits of DScribe

The following maximum limits are defined in DScribe:

Number of open databases	Approximately 50
Number of records in one database	16.4 million
Number of records in one hit list	1,024,000
Size of a plain text field	64,000 characters
Number of fields in one record	400
Size of record	160 x 250,000 bytes
Length of field and record names	31 characters
Length of indexable word	66 characters
Number of terms in index	Approximately 40 million
Number of record types	Unlimited
Number of defined field types	64,000
Size of stopword list	Unlimited
Size of synonym list	Unlimited
Size of glossary	Unlimited
Number of buttons in a tool bar	50

Dates, times, number and currency fields have the following ranges: