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SharePoint 2013: Limitations & Boundaries

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Web application limits

The following table lists the recommended guidelines for Web applications.

Limit Maximum value
Web application 20 per farm
Zone 5 per Web application
Managed path 20 per Web application
Solution cache size 300 MB per Web application

Content database limits

The following table lists the recommended guidelines for content databases.

The largest number of items per content database that has been tested on SharePoint Server 2013 is 60 million items, including documents and list items. If you plan to store more than 60 million items in SharePoint Server 2013, you must deploy multiple content databases.

Limit Maximum value
Number of content databases 500 per farm
Content database size (general usage scenarios) 200 GB per content database
Content database size (all usage scenarios) 4 TB per content database
Content database size (document archive scenario) No explicit content database limit
Content database items 60 million items including documents and list items
Site collections per content database 10,000 maximum (2,500 non-Personal site collections and 7,500 Personal Sites, or 10,000 Personal Sites alone)
Remote BLOB Storage (RBS) storage subsystem on Network Attached Storage (NAS) When SharePoint Server 2013 is configured to use RBS, and the BLOBs reside on NAS storage, consider the following boundary. From the time that SharePoint Server 2013 requests a BLOB, until it receives the first byte from the NAS, no more than 20 milliseconds can pass.

List and library limits

The following table lists the recommended guidelines for lists and libraries.

We can create very large document libraries by nesting folders, or using standard views and site hierarchy. This value may vary depending on how documents and folders are organized, and by the type and size of documents being  stored. Subsite 2,000 per site view

Limit Maximum value
List row size 8,000 bytes per row
File size 2 GB
Documents 30,000,000 per library
Major versions 400,000 (If you exceed this limit, basic file operations—such as file open or save, delete, and viewing the version history— may not succeed)
Minor versions 511
Items 30,000,000 per list
Bulk operations 100 items per bulk operation
List view threshold 5,000
Coauthoring in Word and PowerPoint for .docx, .pptx and .ppsx files 10 concurrent editors per document
Security scope 50,000 per list

Security limits

Limit Maximum value
Number of SharePoint groups a user can belong to 5,000
Users in a site collection 2 million per site collection
Active Directory Principles/Users in a SharePoint group 5,000 per SharePoint group
SharePoint groups 10,000 per site collection
Security principal: size of the Security Scope 5,000 per Access Control List (ACL)

Search limits

The following table lists the recommended guidelines for Search.

Limit Maximum value
Search service applications 20 per farm
Crawl databases 5 crawl databases per search service application
Crawl components 2 per search service application
Index components 60 per Search service application
Index partitions 20 per search service application
Index replicas 3 per index partition
Indexed items 100 million per search service application; 10 million per index partition
Crawl log entries 100 million per search application
Property databases 10 per search service application;128 total
Link database Two per Search service application
Query processing components 1 per server computer
Content processing components One per server computer
Scope rules 100 scope rules per scope; 600 total per search service application
Scopes 200 site scopes and 200 shared scopes per search service application
Display groups 25 per site
Alerts 100,000 per search application
Content sources 50 per search service application
Start addresses 100 per content source
Concurrent crawls 20 per search application
Crawled properties 500,000 per search application
Crawl impact rule no limit
Crawl rules no limit
Managed properties 50,000 per search service application
Values per managed property 100
Indexed managed property size 512 KB per searchable/queryable managed property
Managed property mappings 100 per managed property
Retrievable managed property size 16 KB per managed property
Sortable and refinable managed property size 16 KB per managed property
URL removals 100 removals per operation
Authoritative pages 1 top level and minimal second and third level pages per search service application
Keywords 200 per site collection
Metadata properties recognized 10,000 per item crawled
Analytics processing components 6 per Search service application
Analytics reporting database Four per Search service application
Maximum eDiscovery KeywordQuery text length 16 KB
Maximum KeywordQuery text length 4 KB
Maximum length of eDiscovery KeywordQuery text at Search service application level 20 KB
Maximum length of KeywordQuery text at Search service application level 20 KB
Maximum size of documents pulled down by crawler 64 MB (3 MB for Excel documents)
Navigable results from search 100,000 per query request per Search service application
Number of entries in a custom entity extraction dictionary 1 million
Number of entries in a custom search dictionary 5,000 terms per tenant
Number of entries in a thesaurus 1 million
Ranking models 1,000 per tenant
Results removal No limit
Term size 300 characters
Unique terms in the index 2^31 (>2 billion terms)
Unique contexts used for ranking 15 unique contexts per rank model
User defined full text indexes 10

User Profile Service limits

The following table lists the recommended guidelines for User Profile Service.

Limit Maximum value
User profiles 2,000,000 per service application
Social tags, notes and ratings 500,000,000 per social database

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