Is there any maximum for the size of matlab table?

I need to know if there is maximum for the number of rows and columns of the matlab table.

For example is it ok to have around 2000 rows and 500 columns?

Answer 1

[Walter Roberson]

table() objects are restricted to:

• no more than 2^48 - 1 = 281474976710655 variables
• each variable is restricted to no more than 2^48 - 1 = 281474976710655 in each dimension
• each variable is restricted to 2^48 - 1 = 281474976710655 bytes
• total size of all memory used in a single MATLAB process is restricted to be no more than 2^48 - 1 = 281474976710655 bytes

2000 rows and 5000 columns is no problem at all. Here is one 50 times bigger (100 times bigger ran out of memory on the system I was executing on)

t = array2table(randi(9, 10000, 50000, 'uint8'));
whos t

  Name          Size                   Bytes  Class    Attributes

  t         10000x50000            511178555  table              

Answer 2

[M]

It depends on what you want to store into this table. You can have a look here to find more informations:

https://mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/91711-what-is-the-maximum-matrix-size-for-each-platform

[KAE]

This link is broken

Answer 3

[Steven Lord]

There are theoretical limits (based on limitations of the operating system's ability to address memory) that you are highly unlikely to reach especially now that MATLAB is a 64-bit application.

There are also practical limits (based on how much memory is available on your system) that you likely won't reach.

2000 rows and 500 variables should be well within the practical limit unless you have a lot of other data in your workspace. You can check before filling in the data:

T = table('size', [2000 500], 'VariableTypes', repmat("double", 1, 500));
whos T

  Name         Size               Bytes  Class    Attributes

  T         2000x500            8110551  table