Use constraints and recommendations

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To keep your cluster stable and performant, stay within the limits listed below. Exceeding these values can degrade query performance, destabilize the system, and increase the risk of crashes or service interruptions.

If you need to exceed a recommended maximum value, join the Hologres DingTalk group for technical support. See Get support for Hologres.

Item Recommended maximum
Databases per instance 10
Instance purchases, scale-outs, or scale-ins per day 10
Accounts per instance (Alibaba Cloud accounts, RAM users, and custom accounts) 256. See Manage users.
Connections per instance Varies by instance type. See Instance types.
Tables per table group (including child partitioned tables, excluding foreign tables) 10,000. To check the current table count per table group, run: SELECT property_value, count(1) FROM hologres.hg_table_properties WHERE property_key = 'table_group' GROUP BY 1;
Columns per column-oriented table 300
Columns per row-oriented table 3,000
Columns per row-column hybrid table 300
Total columns across all tables in a table group 1,000,000
Table comment length 1,024 characters
Column comment length 1,024 characters
Maximum value size (TEXT, CHAR, VARCHAR, JSON, JSONB, BLOB, BYTEA, BIT, VARBIT) 4 MB