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Asked: 2026-06-08T09:08:15+00:00

I am trying to figure out whether a web development project is feasible at

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I am trying to figure out whether a web development project is feasible at the moment and have so far learned that the total row count of the proposed database (30 million rows, 5 columns and about 3 gb of storage) is well within the budget limits in terms of storage requirements, but because of the anticipated large number of queries that users will make to the database I am not sure if this will cause an unrealistic load to manage for the server to provide adequate performance (within my budget).

I will be using this grid (a live demo of performance benchmarks for 300,000 rows – http://demos.telerik.com/aspnet-ajax/grid/examples/performance/linq/defaultcs.aspx). Inserting a search term in the “product name” box and pressing enter takes 1.6 seconds from query to results render. It seems to me (a newbie) that 300,000 rows which take 1.6 seconds all in all must take much longer with 30 million rows, and so I am trying to figure out

  • what the increase in time would be the more rows are added up to 30 million
  • what the increase in time would be for each additional 1000 people using the search grid at the same time.
  • what hardware requirements are necessary to reduce the delays to an acceptable level

Hopefully if I can figure that out I can get a more realistic assessment for feasibility. FYI: The database need not be updated very regularly, it is more for readonly purposes.

Can this problem be prototyped on paper for these 3 points?

Even wide ball park estimates- without considering optimisation, am I talking hundreds of dollars for 5000 users to have searches below 10 seconds each, thousands, or tens of thousands of dollars?

[Will be asp.net RadControls for AJAX Grid, One of these cloud hosted servers: 4,096MB RAM
160GB Diskspace, and either Microsoft® SQL Server® 2008 R2 and SQL Server 2012 ]

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  1. Editorial Team

    The database need not be updated very regularly, it is more for readonly purposes.

    Your search filters allow for substring searches, so db indexes are not going to help you and the search will go row-by-row.

    It looks like your data would probably fit in 5GB of memory or so. I would store the whole thing in memory and seach there.

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