topic Re: Scalability of Activiti Engine in Alfresco Archive

Scalability of Activiti Engine

limcheekin — Wed, 06 Apr 2011 02:39:23 GMT

Hi there,My client evaluating Activiti for production use at the moment. They have concern on scalability of Activiti Engine. I believe Activiti team has run some scalability tests for Activiti Engine. May I know did you published any scalability test reports?Best regards,Chee Kin

Re: Scalability of Activiti Engine

jbarrez — Wed, 06 Apr 2011 08:07:46 GMT

We've done basically nothing more then running a few hundreds of thousand of processes using a threadpool. It's very easy to quickly build something yourself.
I dont find the numbers here (and they're pretty old, also), but the load was definitely no problem.

Re: Scalability of Activiti Engine

limcheekin — Wed, 06 Apr 2011 09:45:08 GMT

We've done basically nothing more then running a few hundreds of thousand of processes using a threadpool. It's very easy to quickly build something yourself.
I dont find the numbers here (and they're pretty old, also), but the load was definitely no problem.

Thanks for quick response. Few hundreds of thousand of processes using a threadpool? Does it equivalent to few hundreds of thousand concurrent users?

Best regards,
Chee Kin

Re: Scalability of Activiti Engine

jbarrez — Fri, 08 Apr 2011 08:46:16 GMT

Depends on what those users are doing 😉

No, really, if your app is heavy on human tasks, the Activiti engine is most of the time doing actually nothing (ie state is in the database). If those users were to click exactly on the same moment on the complete button, then it will probably be noticeable 😉