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Hello,

I’ve posted something similar before and received some great feedback from the community, but it is crucial I am 100% sure on how I move forward with my project.

For some context:

My client has many high-resolution images and estimates initial data could be around 3-4TB. This includes thousands of images and lines/rows/records split between multiple tables and will include a large archive of past work.

They expect to add several thousand images and lines/rows/records each year.

Can Retool Cloud, when attached to an external database and storage such as supabase, handle this type of project with TB of data including thousands of images and rows of data generally, but also without too many issues or complications? I am absolutely planning on using pagination.

I am a fan of Retool Cloud but if I need to figure out a different method it would be best to know now before I push too far forward with development.

I am loving using Retool but I am still new to the platform, so this is a learning experience for me.

My main and most important question is the ability to use Retool Cloud, but I will also happily accept any thoughts on my project in general.

A big thanks to the community for all the help!

Hey @JO315 - thanks for reaching out and outlining your project requirements. As long as you're utilizing pagination to limit the amount of data being loading at one time, there's no reason Retool can't be a reliable solution. I will say that its feature set is slightly biased towards data processing and visualization over media, but image upload and retrieval via S3, for example, work very well.

Let me know if you have any specific questions!

For projects with several TB of images, Retool can handle the app logic, but storage performance and retrieval speed become the real bottlenecks.

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Let us know if you have any additional questions, @JO315!