Hi,
forgive me, I'm not too familiar with scalabiltiy issues:

1)I intend to have 10 -15 thousand node titles (first and last names) that need to be indexed alphabetically. Would G2 be a suitable module for this? And would it scale well under a high traffic site?

2) Views has a built in glossary--can you give me an idea of how they compare performance wise? would you recommend one over the other?

thanks

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Scalability

1. Storage: should not be a problem: G2, unlike glossary.module, uses nodes for storage and there are many sites with millions of nodes.
2. Traffic: G2 does not introduce access control, so unless your site deploys access control otherwise you can enable D6 block caching for all G2 feature blocks

Views "glossary"

1. it is enabled to build a list of values from content, what g2 and glossary call the alphabar. G2 uses a fixed, non-calculated alphabar, to avoid CPU and DB overhead
2. it is only a special mode for arguments, not an actual glossary system: you will need to rebuild just about everything from various views and/or displays, and lose some features like internal referer tracking, ability to use remote glossaries, and so on.

You should use 6.1.dev, though: some issues have been fixed in it since 6.1.0.

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