Scalability of Minivend (revisit)

[Pumin Wuvanich <pumin@hotmail.com>]

Mike Heins Wrote:
>The largest site I know of runs about 850 stores along with a
>heavily-traversed MiniVend-based search engine. It is on a Linux
>dual-Pentium 300MHz with 256MB of RAM. It typically runs at a load
>average of less than 1.3, and does 50,000-100,000 MiniVend-parsed page
>views per day with over a million web hits per day.
>
>It shares the product database tables for all 850 catalogs.

I wonder how do I set directive to allow sharing product databases among 
subcatalogs, if i want each subcatalog to have its own product file. (so 
that each store can maintain their product databases individually eg. 
upload, download, etc.)

Should i set in the 'catalog.cfg' as follow ?
   Database products1  products1.asc TAB
   Database products2  products2.asc TAB
   Database products3  products3.asc TAB
   ....
   ....
   Database products850  products850.asc TAB
   ProductFiles products1 product2 ..........  products850  (this gonna be a 
very long line)

or should I set each directive in each subcatalog?
   in 'subcatalog_store1.cfg' :
        Database products  products1.asc TAB

   in 'subcatalog_store2.cfg' :
        Database products  products2.asc TAB
   ........
   ........
   in 'subcatalog_store850.cfg' :
        Database products  products850.asc TAB

or should i use SQL?  :)

suggestions are always welcome.

Best regards,
Pumin Wuvanich





______________________________________________________
Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com