Magento’s checkout throughput can increase to at least 8 times its current capacity and up to 26 times more in ideal conditions.
- The current checkouts per hour limit for large, real-world Magento stores is 4,500
- This limit cannot effectively be increased with more and/or better hardware
- The improper type handling in Magento’s SQL code is the cause of the current limit
- If one SQL query is fixed, large Magento stores can scale to a new, real-world limit of 120,000 checkouts per hour
- For commodity hardware, this new limit might be 36,000 checkouts per hour
