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The string 'quota' does not appear once in DSpace's 2,125-line dspace.cfg; the only two hits repo-wide are a Solr query-parser class...","duplicate_of":null,"n_unknown":5},"record":{"topic":"storage","slug":"dspace-7-platform-class","provider":"DSpace 7+ platform class (MIT, UCT, demo.dspace.org and ~3,485 registered sites)","url":"https://dspace.mit.edu","category":"academic repository / DSpace 7.x–10.2","free_tier":{"stated":"NO QUOTA CONCEPT AT ALL. The string 'quota' does not appear once in DSpace's 2,125-line dspace.cfg; the only two hits repo-wide are a Solr query-parser class and a discovery.cfg comment. There is no per-user, per-collection or per-installation storage limit in the software. The only byte constraint is a per-request multipart limit.","unit":"unlimited","metered_on":"stored-bytes","source_url":"https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/blob/main/dspace-server-webapp/src/main/resources/application.properties","read_on":"2026-10-21","notes":null},"per_object_cap":{"stated":"512 MB/file","bytes":512000000,"source_url":"https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/blob/main/dspace-server-webapp/src/main/resources/application.properties","notes":"not stated"},"retention":{"stated":"not stated","source_url":"https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/blob/main/dspace-server-webapp/src/main/resources/application.properties","notes":"not stated"},"egress":{"terms":"Cloudflare-fronted.","metered":false},"interface":["rest","cli"],"interface_detail":"REST (/server/api), OAI-PMH, SWORD","tooling":"curl / dspace CLI / OAI-PMH harvesters","chaining":"Unbounded by construction — but every instance's write path is affiliation-gated in practice, and the registry is dominated by pre-7 installs with no REST API at all.","limits":[{"kind":"per-object-cap","value":"512 MB/file","source":"https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/blob/main/dspace-server-webapp/src/main/resources/application.properties"}],"limits_note":"per-object-cap 512 MB/file in DSpace 7+ (spring.servlet.multipart.max-file-size = 512MB, max-request-size = 512MB). DSpace 6 and below used upload.max, which accepts -1 for 'no limit'.","identity_cost":{"kind":"institution","detail":"institution","country":null},"reliability_note":"60 of 60 sampled registry sites returned no /server/api/info, i.e. they are DSpace 6 or earlier and expose no modern REST API — the registry is a lagging indicator of what is programmatically usable.","confidence":"reported","confidence_note":"One page read moves it to documented.","evidence":[{"url":"https://raw.githubusercontent.com/DSpace/DSpace/main/dspace-server-webapp/src/main/resources/application.properties","date":"2026-10-21","proved":"'spring.servlet.multipart.max-file-size = 512MB' and 'max-request-size = 512MB'"},{"url":"https://raw.githubusercontent.com/DSpace/DSpace/main/dspace/config/dspace.cfg","date":"2026-10-21","proved":"2,125 lines, zero occurrences of 'quota'"},{"url":"https://api.github.com/search/code?q=quota+repo:DSpace/DSpace","date":"2026-10-21","proved":"total_count 2, both unrelated (dspace-api/.../core/Utils.java, dspace/config/modules/discovery.cfg)"},{"url":"https://demo.dspace.org/server/api","date":"2026-10-21","proved":"'DSpace 10.2-SNAPSHOT', REST root present"},{"url":"https://demo.dspace.org/server/api/eperson/registrations","date":"2026-10-21","proved":"POST — 403 'Invalid CSRF token.' (endpoint exists and is CSRF-guarded, so self-registration is a deployment toggle)"},{"url":"https://dspace.org/registry/","date":"2026-10-21","proved":"'Displaying 1 - 100 of 3,485', 35 pages"}],"verdict":"fails-identity","verified_at":"2026-10-21T00:00:00.000Z","notes":"NO QUOTA CONCEPT AT ALL. The string 'quota' does not appear once in DSpace's 2,125-line dspace.cfg; the only two hits repo-wide are a Solr query-parser class and a discovery.cfg comment. There is no per-user, per-collection or per-installation storage limit in the software. The only byte constraint is a per-request multipart limit.","extras":{"dead_end":{"failure_class":"quota","why":"NO QUOTA CONCEPT AT ALL. The string 'quota' does not appear once in DSpace's 2,125-line dspace.cfg; the only two hits repo-wide are a Solr query-parser class and a discovery.cfg comment. There is no per-user, per-collection or per-installation storage limit in the software. 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