Last Reviewed: February 16, 2009
Article: DTS0134
Applies to: dtSearch 7
dtSearch works by building an index of your documents. You can create as many indexes as you want, and in a search you can search any or all of them by clicking on the ones you want to search.
Each index can hold over a terabyte of text, in up to 2 billion documents. If you fill up an index, dtSearch will display an "Index is full" message and stop adding documents to the index.
There is no specific limit on the number of words in an index.
Each document in an index can be up to 2 Gb in size.
There is no limit on the length of a field within a document, nor is there a limit on the maximum number of fields in a document.
For more information on factors affecting index size, see article DTS0142 "Index Size"
For more information on the version 7 index format, see http://www.dtsearch.com/index7.html
The maximum length of a search request is 65,000 characters.
In dtSearch Desktop, the limit on the maximum number of documents to retrieve in a search can be changed in the Options > Preferences > Search Options dialog box.