Below are the results of a survey conducted by Atlassian in July 2007, showing some capacity statistics for Confluence users. The figures are broken down by industry and number of users.

Num Users

Length of time in production

Database

Application Server

Num CPUs/Cores

Physical Memory/RAM

Operating System

Satisfaction with Confluence Performance

Banking/Finance

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

26 - 50

3-6 Months Ago

Microsoft SQL Server

Standalone/Apache Tomcat

2

2G

Windows

Neutral

26 - 50

2 Years Ago

Sybase ASE

Weblogic

>8

>16G

Unix

Satisfied

51 - 250

3-6 Months Ago

Oracle

Standalone/Apache Tomcat

2

4G

Unix

Neutral

501 - 1,000

3-6 Months Ago

Microsoft SQL Server

Websphere

2

2G

AIX

Satisfied

1,001 - 5,000

3-6 Months Ago

Oracle

Standalone/Apache Tomcat

2

4G

Windows

Satisfied

1,001 - 5,000

2 Years Ago

Oracle

Websphere

4

>16G

Solaris

Extremely Satisfied

5,001 - 10,000

10-12 Months Ago

Microsoft SQL Server

Standalone/Apache Tomcat

4

16G

Linux

Satisfied

Education

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1-25

2 Years Ago

DB2

Standalone/Apache Tomcat

2

2G

Linux

Satisfied

26 - 50

10-12 Months Ago

MySQL

Standalone/Apache Tomcat

2

2G

Linux

Extremely Satisfied

51 - 250

<3 Months Ago

Oracle

Standalone/Apache Tomcat

 

1G

Windows

Unsatisfied

51 - 250

10-12 Months Ago

Oracle

Standalone/Apache Tomcat

1

2G

Unix

Extremely Satisfied

Engineering/Aerospace

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

251 - 500

7-9 Months Ago

Oracle

Standalone/Apache Tomcat

1

1G

Mac OS X

Satisfied

1,001 - 5,000

7-9 Months Ago

Microsoft SQL Server

JBoss

2

4G

Linux

Satisfied

Entertainment

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1,001 - 5,000

10-12 Months Ago

PostgreSQL

Standalone/Apache Tomcat

2

8G

Linux

Extremely Satisfied

Government

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

51 - 250

2 Years Ago

MySQL

Standalone/Apache Tomcat

2

2G

Mac OS X

Extremely Satisfied

Technology

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

501 - 1,000

7-9 Months Ago

MySQL

Standalone/Apache Tomcat

1

2G

Linux

Satisfied

Telecommunications & Media

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1-25

3-6 Months Ago

Standalone/HSQL

Standalone/Apache Tomcat

1

 

Linux

Satisfied

1-25

7-9 Months Ago

MySQL

Standalone/Apache Tomcat

1

2G

Linux

Satisfied

26 - 50

10-12 Months Ago

MySQL

Standalone/Apache Tomcat

2

2G

Linux

Satisfied

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