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> Hi,
>
> Just asking out of my curiosity. Which of these can hamper performance
> of my online applications?
>
> Having multiple small databases open concurrently or huge size of one
> single database? What happen for its long term run?
>

That is a tricky one. What is huge?
If you have lots of queries, that will join those small tables, you will pay
a perfomance penalty.
Having one huge database might get you to the limits of the OS.