Limits
Limits that pertain to the usage of IBM® Cloudant® for IBM Cloud® databases are shown in the following tables.
Databases
Table 1. Limits for databases
Description |
Limit |
Database size |
Consult the IBM Cloudant team if your database is likely to exceed 5 TB in size. |
Partition size |
10 GB |
Indexes
Table 2. Limits for indexes
Description |
Limit |
Number of global indexes |
Unlimited |
Number of partition indexes |
10 |
Request payload
Table 3. Limits for request payload
Description |
Limit |
Total request size |
10 MB |
Document size |
1 MB |
Attachment size |
10 MB |
Request timeouts
Table 4. Limits for request timeouts
Description |
Limit |
Default |
60 seconds |
_partition/* |
5 seconds |
Query
Table 5. Limits for query results
Description |
Limit |
Default |
Unlimited |
_partition/* default |
2000 |
_search |
200 |
_find by using text index |
200 |