ColdFusion MX 7 -- About the Verity utilities -- Version 7

ColdFusion MX includes several Verity utilities to diagnose and manage your collections. These tools include the mkvdk, rcvdk, rck2, and vspider utilities.

The following table describes the relationship between the major Verity utilities and the corresponding cfcollection, cfsearch, and cfindex ColdFusion tags. The cfcollection tag operates on the entire collection; the cfindex tag operates on records within a collection. For more information, see Using Verity Utilities.

	cfcollection	cfindex	cfsearch
utility	create	repair	delete	optimize	update	delete	purge	refresh	search
mkvdk	X	X		X	X	X	X	X
rcvdk									X (file-system based)
rck2									X (server-based)

ColdFusion MX OEM restrictions

ColdFusion MX includes a restricted version of the Verity Server, with restrictions in the following areas:

Additionally, ColdFusion MX OEMs and ISVs have the following document search limits:

Comments

naqshbandi said on May 11, 2005 at 2:30 PM :

"250,000 documents for ColdFusion MX Enterprise Edition"
is the limit for each collection or for the total of all collections?

"limits are for all collections registered to Verity Server": just not clear enough...

jrunrandy said on May 26, 2005 at 5:16 PM :

ColdFusion is also restricted to a single CPU license for K2server. That means that the K2server process will only ever use a single CPU, even if there are 2 (or 4 or 8) CPUs on the machine it is running on.

jharb said on Mar 22, 2006 at 8:09 AM :

Regarding the following statement:

"Note: Each row in a database table is considered a document."

Should this statement instead say: "Each row in a query is considered a document."

Reasoning: A query object does not necessarily have to come from a database.

s_bywater said on Apr 11, 2006 at 8:24 AM :

Also note k2server is limited to a maximum of 128 collections. This is a degradation from earlier verisons of CF that didn't have a collection limit.

Also note there is a limit of ~57000 records per collection. This is a degradation of earlier versions of CF, that let you put all licensed documents in a single collection if you wanted.

Re: "The Verity Spider that is included with ColdFusion MX is licensed for local host indexing only. Contact Verity Sales for licensing options regarding the use of the Verity Spider for remote host indexing. " The practical implication of this is if you previously had a cluster of CF web server all working agains a common CF verity source, you will need to rearcitecture becuase this is no longer supported. You can only have one web server making requests to a given verity server.

sdupre said on Jun 8, 2006 at 9:52 AM :

Actually, the custom collection limit (bug 60811) is 65520 records. You can get around that limit by looping in groups of under 64k records and doing updates. It works well.

Verity has since fixed this 65520 record limitation but it requires an entire release update (not just a DLL or a .so) to get the fix and the fix has not been tested here internally. For now, it's best to use the workaround.

My guess is this will be rolled into 8.0