[Koha] Limitation of Koha

Kyle Hall kyle.m.hall at gmail.com
Sat Nov 3 00:38:34 NZDT 2007


The Howard County Library System is switching to Koha, and they do
about 5,000,000 issues a year.

Kyle

On Nov 2, 2007 7:15 AM, 毛慶禎 <mao at lins.fju.edu.tw> wrote:
> Thank you Shantanoo.  Very useful information.
> However, allow me change my question a little bit.
>
> Which library is the biggest library among those who use Koha?
> Let us count collection size, readers number and annual circulation items only.
>
> http://www.koha.org/about-koha/case-studies/nelsonville.html said:
> The Nelsonville Public Library in Athens County, Ohio have been large
> contributors to the Koha project. The library has 7 branches,
> including a mobile book mobile. The library has 250,00 items and
> approximatley 650,00 issues per year (based on 2003 figures)
>
> Any further information?
>
> 2007/11/2, Shantanoo Mahajan <shantanoo at gmail.com>:
> > Please find the reply inline.
> >
> > On 02-Nov-07, at 6:47 AM, 毛慶禎 wrote:
> >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > >
> > > I would like ask a question, what is the limitation of Koha?
> > >
> > > 1. Collection size - How many books records can Koha handle?
> > >
> > > 2. Readers - how many readers can Koha handle?
> > >
> > > 3. Circulation - how much transaction can Koha handle per year?
> >
> > AFAIK, none. All the data i.e. records, readers, circulation data is
> > stored
> > is database (mysql currently, which may be changed to other database
> > in future). So all the limitations are enforced by the database. Other
> > limitation will be enforced by your hardware. CPU, memory, storage,
> > network connectivity etc. and not my the software.
> >
> >
> > regards,
> > shantanoo
>
>
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>
>
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