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Support For Databases
September 13, 2013, 10:33:30 am
Hello,

We are very serious about wanting to use Civi at my organization in a very big way. Our primary concern is data volume. We have ported a very large portion of data into the CIVI platform but I suppose there is so much of it that Civi is crawling. We have a pretty beefy server so resources shouldn't be an issue. Would Civi support the use of alternative databases other than mySQL?

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Re: Support For Databases
September 13, 2013, 10:49:29 am

I'm assuming u r using v4.3 (and not v4.0, so please do fix your forum profile :)

a few questions and comments:

a. Right now, Civi only works with MySQL. Porting to Postgres / other dbs has come up periodically, but this will require some serious $$$ investment into the platform. We'd love to do this and revamp the DB layer while we are doing so

b. Can you give a sense of how much data you have? number of contacts, contributions etc?

c. A few specs on your machine along with RAM etc would also be helpful

Might want to consider getting a Civi consultant on board for a few hours if this is a big issue. There are quite a few large deployments of Civi (million+ contacts) with relatively reasonable performance

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Re: Support For Databases
September 13, 2013, 11:12:51 am
a) I understand- I was looking at what we did for the in-house developed app and noted that we use a few stored procs to execute commonly called items in the DB to speed up performance. Has this ever been tested using mySQL/ CIVI. Some of my initial research indicates that mySQL supports them

b) the number of contacts right now is increasing at a decent rate. I will need to pull a new count but I suspect (due to history as well)- 600,000+ (~70,000 have contributions). We are wanting to use Civi for both contributions and to manage our organizational structure/ relationships.

c) I will pull those and post them as soon as I can
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