C# dictionary - how to solve limit on number of items?

Question

I am using Dictionary and I need to store almost 13 000 000 keys in it. Unfortunatelly, after adding 11 950 000th key I got an exception \"System out of memory\". Is there a

Answer 1

With that many keys, you should either use a database or something like memcache while swapping out chunks of the cache in storage. I'm doubting you need all of the items at once, and if you do, there's no way it's going to work on a low-powered machine with little RAM.