Both archiving and nearline allow a reduction of database size that results in improved speed of performance for the online system.

The number of objects in a database is unlimited (except by the database size).

This is a side effect of the requirements for small database sizes on the lower end embedded devices.

They cannot claim any database size because they do not have this data.

Of course, the database size can be greater than the capacity of the main memory and the upper limit is 8 exabytes.

The database size can be up to 8EB (9.22e18 bytes).

These problems magnify significantly with database size, scale, and complexity.

Practical limit to database size is around 1 GB (even on 64-bit platforms).

SQL Server is better able to cope with large database sizes, but requires more maintenance than the classic database.

Clustering sequences significantly reduces database size, enabling faster sequence searches.