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Known Limitations

Detailed here are various maximum sizes or numbers, name lengths, and character restrictions of the names of various Aerospike Server objects.

ObjectWhatDescription
BinName, length and characters- Maximum: 15 bytes.
- Aerospike Server versions prior to 4.2, maximum: 14 single-byte characters.
- Double-byte characters are displayed as ASCII.
- Names can include only Latin lowercase and uppercase letters with no diacritical marks (a-z, A-Z), digits 0-9, underscores (_), hyphens (-), and dollar signs ($). This naming guideline is not enforced; however, if you do not follow it, some Aerospike features and tools might not function properly.
- Reserved word null should be avoided.
BinNumber of bins per namespace- Maximum bin names per namespace: 65,535.
- Versions prior to 5.0, maximum: 32,767.
Cluster sizeMax number of nodesVersions >= 5.0: 256.
Versions < 5.0: 128.

Community Edition:
CE version >= 4.0: 8.
CE versions < 4.0: 31.
ClusterAmount of data- An Enterprise Edition cluster has no limit on the amount of data it can have.
- A Community Edition cluster can have a maximum of 5TB for entire cluster, divided into 640GB of unique data per node: 5TB ÷ 8 maximum number of nodes per cluster. The maximum 640GB per node is calculated only on available capacity of the node, not actual capacity, and can include system overhead for necessary server processes.
DevicesMaximum number of devices or files per namespace per node- Version >= 4.2: 128.
- Versions between 4.2 and 3.1.2: 64.
- Versions < 3.1.2: 32.
HistogramInterval between sampling slicesFor 10 second slices, maximum: 86400 seconds.
GenerationNumberThe generation will wrap back to 1 after 65536 updates in AP mode, or 1024 updates in SC mode.
Refer to the conflict-resolution-policy for details on one of the main usage of this meta data.
KeyData TypeA key's data type can be a string, integer or bytes (blob).
KeySizeThe Java client limits the records primary key size to slightly under 8 KiB. For C based clients such as Python, PHP, Go, and C#, no limit is defined. The actual limit is the size of the stack at around 10MiB. The total stack size can be determined by running the ulimit command:
- ulimit -s
Or, print a list of all current limits:
- ulimit -a
NamespaceName, length and characters- Maximum: 31 bytes.
- Double-byte characters are displayed as ASCII.
- Must not contain the : or ; character.
- Reserved word null should be avoided.
NamespaceNumber of bins- Maximum bin names per namespace: 65,535.
- Versions prior to 5.0, maximum: 32,767.
- Maximum bins per key: 32,767 bins.
NamespaceNumber of namespaces- Enterprise Edition, maximum: 32.
- Community Edition server version 4.0 and later, maximum: 2.
NamespaceSize of each file or deviceMaximum: 2TiB.
NamespaceStorageMaximum: 128 devices per namespace.
Network interfacesNumberMaximum number of interfaces: 500. Prior to version 3.5, maximum: 50.
Maximum number of IP addresses per interface: 20. Any IP addresses after 20 are ignored.
RecordMaximum number- Enterprise Edition: 549,755,813,888 records per namespace per node.
  - 2^39 records; EE >= 4.2.0.2; index-stage-size=16G.
- Community Edition: 4,294,967,296 records per namespace per node.

Actual number limited by the cluster's RAM and storage.
RecordNumber of bins- Maximum bins per record: 32,767 bins.
RecordSetsA record can belong to only one set.
RecordMaximum record sizeRecord size including metadata.
- For data in memory: 128MiB.
- For data on device, the record size is limited to the write-block-size.
   - Version >= 4.2: 8 MiB.
   - Versions < 4.2: 1 MiB.
Replication factorMaximum replication-factor- In High Availability (AP) mode, the replication factor can be greater than the number nodes in the cluster. In this case, the replication factor is dynamically adjusted to the number of nodes. When a new node is added, the replication factor is again dynamically adjusted to the new number of nodes.
- In Strong Consistency (SC) mode, the limit on replication factor is the number of nodes in the cluster.
Secondary indexByte sizeA bin is eligible for secondary indexing if its size is within the following bounds:

- String bin 2048 bytes
- GeoJSON bin 1MB.
Secondary indexIndexes per namespaceMaximum: 256.
Secondary indexName, length and characters- Maximum: 255 bytes.
- Must not contain the : or ; character.
- Reserved word null should be avoided.
Security passwordAllowable passwordsSee Valid password constructs.
Security user name and role nameName length and characters- Maximum: 63 bytes.
- Must not contain the : or ; characters.
- Reserved word null should be avoided.
SetName length and characters- Maximum: 63 bytes.
- Names can include only Latin lowercase and uppercase letters with no diacritical marks (a-z, A-Z), digits 0-9, underscores (_), hyphens (-), and dollar signs ($). This naming guideline is not enforced; however, if you do not follow it, some Aerospike features and tools might not function properly.
- Reserved word null should be avoided.
SetNumber of setsMaximum: 1023 sets per namespace.
XDRNumber of datacentersMaximum: 64.