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Is there a magic number, or some guide as to what is a realistic limit for the number of categories a Magento catalog can contain?

A project I'm working on will need to feature some 9000 or so categories - is this an achievable number in Magento Community Edition?

I know there are concerns with large product catalogs, but I can't find any information around large category sets.

asked Dec 22, 2015 at 16:00
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  • As a heads up, working on a menu system and category collections massively eat time and memory if you don't do proper collection manipulation. They're still quite resource intensive if you do it right. Commented Dec 22, 2015 at 17:12
  • @FiascoLabs That's a good point - can you elaborate what you mean by collection manipulation? The majority of the categories required are of a specific type, and these need not form part of the main menu system. (How to go about this is a question in itself). Commented Dec 22, 2015 at 17:18
  • Loading collections within foreach loops is one issue that comes to mind. Commented Dec 22, 2015 at 19:07

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There is no magic number, personally I've built ecomm solutions that have 100s of thousands of products, and 1000 of categories using CE. Long as you have a proper server, caching and optimizations it'll run practically the same as if you only have a handful of products and categories.

answered Dec 23, 2015 at 17:13

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