FAQs (EN)

44. How scalable is the CIB documentServer? Do you have an architecture proposal for this?

The CIB documentServer is highly scalable. The configurable number of simultaneously started CIB socketserver processes (see setting de.cib.docserv.MaxProcessCount in the Configuration section) allows the available machine power to be used optimally.

If more power is required than one machine can provide, the CIB documentServer can easily be further scaled using the common clustering methods.

One suggestion is to use the CIB documentServer on two nodes, each with an Apache Tomcat servlet container. These are preceded by an Apache Httpserver as load balancer. The load balancer can run on both nodes, but must then be available on both nodes for a failover. This configuration is used by many of our customers. Due to the respective individual operating requirements, CIB can only provide support in an advisory capacity.