# Scalability of Node RED
**URL:** https://discourse.nodered.org/t/scalability-of-node-red/40646
**Category:** General
**Created:** [9 February 2021 05:19 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/scalability-of-node-red/40646 "2021-02-09T05:19:00Z")
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### Author:  [@sathishkumarc14](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/sathishkumarc14)
#### Post date: [9 February 2021 05:19 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/scalability-of-node-red/40646/1 "2021-02-09T05:19:00Z")
We are going to start an IoT project on node red.
10,000 of devices going to send data with TCP (10,000 records/second). Node RED receives with TCP listener node and convert into JSON and publish into MQTT broker.
Is this much scalable? How much resources will be required?
Regards,
Sathish
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### Author:  [@meeki007](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/meeki007)
#### Post date: [9 February 2021 07:47 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/scalability-of-node-red/40646/2 "2021-02-09T07:47:09Z")
Hardware you plan on running on?
"send data" how big are the records?
Best to just setup a test sending a few hundred and see how it goes.
This question has been asked allot. try searching for it.
[https://discourse.nodered.org/t/performance-scalability-and-security-evaluation/38049](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/performance-scalability-and-security-evaluation/38049)
[https://discourse.nodered.org/t/node-red-scalability/15938/2](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/node-red-scalability/15938/2)
[https://discourse.nodered.org/t/using-node-red-for-enterprise-software/40247/9](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/using-node-red-for-enterprise-software/40247/9)
I feel this question is allot like big data.
"Big data is like teenage sex: everyone talks about it, nobody really knows how to do it, everyone thinks everyone else is doing it, so everyone claims they are doing it...." (Dan Ariely)
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### Author:  [@TotallyInformation](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/TotallyInformation)
#### Post date: [9 February 2021 13:36 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/scalability-of-node-red/40646/3 "2021-02-09T13:36:25Z")
I think that a better question is ... What is this worth to you (or your organisation/enterprise)?
If your expected outcomes are to save $1m a year (or to make that much profit if selling a service). Then you probably should be looking at a sensible investment rather than just asking on an open source forum 😄
Alternatively, if you are not going to realise much benefit (is that why you are looking to free, low-code solutions?), do you really want to consider collecting and processing that much data?
Anyone using Node-RED in a large-scale infrastructure is likely not going to say that much on a forum like this anyway. Their solutions may be considered profitable IP.
A direct answer to your question though would be - probably you can with the right architecture. But should you? That's a different question entirely.
> [@meeki007](#):
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> big data
I can say quite safely that I work with a lot of people doing genuinely big data both in the organisations I architect for as well as others. I also work on architectures that support millions of people, I think that counts as big data too 😄 I only know of 1 person who ever actually admitted to teenage sex though! 🤣
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### Author:  [@system](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [10 April 2021 13:36 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/scalability-of-node-red/40646/4 "2021-04-10T13:36:34Z")
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