# What is the size limit of the text data type in ScyllaDB

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**Category:** ScyllaDB\
**Tags:** data-model\
**Created:** [July 22, 2024, 6:12am UTC](https://forum.scylladb.com/t/what-is-the-size-limit-of-the-text-data-type-in-scylladb/2339 "2024-07-22T06:12:43Z")\
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**Author:** ![Guy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.scylladb.com/guy/32/9_2.png) [@Guy](https://forum.scylladb.com/u/Guy)\
**Post date:** [July 22, 2024, 6:12am UTC](https://forum.scylladb.com/t/what-is-the-size-limit-of-the-text-data-type-in-scylladb/2339/1 "2024-07-22T06:12:44Z")

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> [**Originally from the User Slack**](https://scylladb-users.slack.com/)
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> **@Kishore:** Hi, What is the size limit on `text` data type in Scylla?
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> ![Felipe_Cardeneti_Mendes](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/scylladb/original/1X/233a9d524fbc97e39f08633c16b3dd2575d1d1f4.jpeg) **@Felipe\_Cardeneti\_Mendes:** Very big. By default you shouldn’t be able to write entries (entire mutation) larger than 16MB tho, which is half a commitlog segment size. You can bump it but then you would probably have not so great latency.
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> **@Kishore:** got it.  
> thank you.