Yes, but the key size is very small and independent of the data size.  
Conservatively, you should be able to hold more than 18,000,000 keys within 4GB 
of RAM.

Sean Cribbs <[email protected]>
Developer Advocate
Basho Technologies, Inc.
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On Sep 5, 2010, at 7:06 AM, Mojito Sorbet wrote:

> So the limit is not on bytes-per-file, but on records-per-file, and this
> because all the keys have to be in memory at once?    I guess I am
> assuming the default bitcask back end.
> 
> On Sun, 2010-09-05 at 03:31 -0400, Alexander Sicular wrote:
>> I think you are confusing the actual file size limitation of certain  
>> riak backends with the theoretical limits of the riak system. To my  
>> knowledge there are no such limitations with the current backend  
>> default other than the physical capacity of an individual node.  
>> Specifically, memory consumption per key discussed elsewhere.
>> 
>> 
>> @siculars on twitter
>> http://siculars.posterous.com
>> 
>> Sent from my iPhone
>> 
>> On Sep 4, 2010, at 22:43, Mojito Sorbet <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>>> I see mentions of upper size suggestions on Riak database instances in
>>> the small GB ranges.  (2?  4?)   Can one reasonably expect a Riak DB  
>>> to
>>> scale to a couple hundred terrabytes?
>>> 
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