SharePoint 2016: Site Collection Limits compared to previous versions
Introduction
In this article, let's compare the SharePoint 2016 Site Collection limits with other SharePoint versions.
Boundaries, Thresholds and Supported limits
Before we get started, you should first know what types of limits?
- Boundaries: Static limits that cannot be exceeded by design.
- Thresholds: Configurable limits that can be exceeded to accommodate specific requirements.
- Supported limits: Configurable limits that have been set by default to a tested value.
You may be also interested to read SharePoint 2019 Limitations compared to other versions.
Site Collection Limits for SharePoint
The below table lists the recommended guidelines for Site Collection in SharePoint 2016, 2013, 2010, 2007.
| Limits/Version | Limit Type | SharePoint 2007 | SharePoint 2010 | SharePoint 2013 | SharePoint 2016 |
| Site collection size | Supported | The max size of the content database. | The max size of the content database. | The max size of the content database. | The max size of the content database. |
| In general, we strongly recommend limiting the size of site collections to 100 GB. | In general, we strongly recommend limiting the size of site collections to 100 GB. | In general, we strongly recommend limiting the size of site collections to 100 GB. | In general, we strongly recommend limiting the size of site collections to 100 GB. | ||
| Site collections per farm | Supported | x | x | 750,000 | 750,000 |
| 500,000 Personal Sites plus 250,000 other sites template | 500,000 Personal Sites plus 250,000 other sites template | ||||
| Site collection per web application | Supported | 150,000 | 250,000 | 250,000 | 250,000 |
| Site collection per content database | Supported | 50,000 | 5,000 Max | 10,000 Max | 10,000 Max |
| 2,000 recommended | 2,500 non-Personal site collections and 7,500 Personal Sites, or 10,000 Personal Sites alone | Strongly recommend limiting the number of site collections in a content database to 5,000. However, up to 10,000 site collections in a database are supported. | |||
| Users in site collection | Supported | 2,000,000 | 2,000,000 | 2,000,000 | 2,000,000 |
| Groups in site collection | Supported | x | 10,000 | 10,000 | 10,000 |
| Web site per site collection | Supported | 250,000 | 250,000 | 250,000 | 250,000 |
| Device channels per publishing site collection | Boundary | x | x | 10 | 10 |
Note
X indicates this information is not mentioned in TechNet.
Conclusion
In this article, we've compared the SharePoint 2016 Site Collection limits with SharePoint 2013 / 2010 / 2007.
Reference
Software boundaries and limits for SharePoint Server.
See also
- SharePoint 2016: List and Library Limits compared to previous versions.
- SharePoint 2016: Content Database Limits compared to previous versions.
- SharePoint 2016: Web Application Limits compared to previous versions.
- SharePoint 2019 Limitations.
Credits
Published by M.Qassas at Comparing SharePoint 2016 Site Collection limits with SharePoint 2013 / 2010 / 2007.