What is the TM size limit in MBs/GBs and/or TUs, in Studio 2017?

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Think I asked somewhere recently, but can't remember. What is the maximum TM size in MBs/GBs and/or TUs, in Studio 2017? IN DVX&pound;, e.g., it is 2GB per individual file, due to constraints of the underlying database system. 
 
 Michael

Paul · Accepted Answer

What are you talking about Michael? 2GB would be around the limit for a filebased Multiterm termbase as this is essentially MSAccess. But an SDLTM is SQL and this is a different story. I don't know what the limit is here, but I reckon it's probably going to be capped by performance. I have seen translation memories in excess of 2GB, but they are rare as this is getting ridiculously large and not likely for a Freelance translator unless they are importing TMs collated from wherever they can find them. 
 
And if you talk about server it's a different story again as the capacity is much increased.

Paul · Answer

Hi, 
 I came across a source for some large TMs last night so had a little play upgrading a TMX containing 9.5 mullion TUs... thought you might be interested:

Paul · Answer

Unknown said: PS: I didn't remember/know that SDLTMs are SQL-based. That's great news. 
 Actually SQLite... my bad. But I reckon 40,000,000 TUs is going to be too much for the application around it. Maybe you could get a TM provider developed for your TM directly using the API. Probably not too hard and then you could look it up and pretranslate from it directly.

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What is the TM size limit in MBs/GBs and/or TUs, in Studio 2017?

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