Big Projects

[wohlke]

Hello,

Does anyone knows how big projects EA supports?

I am using EA 4.0 build 729.

Thanks.

[Bruno.Cossi]

Hello,

by size of the project do you mean number of the objects in the repository? Our biggest repository to date contains about 1500 Use Cases, thousands of activity diagrams, interaction diagrams etc. There is close to 2000 classes. We have never had a problem with the size.

Bruno

[wohlke]

Thanks for the response Brunno.

Are you using any Database engine? or  EAP file?

[Bruno.Cossi]

No problem.
The repository I have described above is running on MS SQL Server.
We generally do not use .EAP files - RDBMS makes a lot of stuff, like backing up, much easier.

Bruno

[thomaskilian]

Without ever having tested it, I guess .EAP files won't make much trouble at that size either. They are nothing else than MS Access files and they should (as far as I remember) not neccessarily exceed 32.000 records (that is EA elements) unless you wan't to drop performance  

[JimHinson]

How much space does that require?  How much space should I allow for SQL?

[thomaskilian]

Jim,
space restrictions are not really given with todays hard disks I can not give much numbers since I just manage small projects here. Basic files make up a few megabyte (.EAP). SQL Server needs a bit more since it adds overhead for indexes a.s.o. but not really much.  Anything inside EA is nothing really big (more or less text), so I guess you will stay always below 100 MB for really big projects.