# Bin per namespace limit

**URL:** <https://discuss.aerospike.com/t/bin-per-namespace-limit/495>\
**Category:** Feature Discussion\
**Created:** [November 8, 2014, 5:18pm UTC](https://discuss.aerospike.com/t/bin-per-namespace-limit/495 "2014-11-08T17:18:20Z")\
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**Author:** ![arypurnomoz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f05b48/32.png) [@arypurnomoz](https://discuss.aerospike.com/u/arypurnomoz)\
**Post date:** [November 8, 2014, 5:18pm UTC](https://discuss.aerospike.com/t/bin-per-namespace-limit/495/1 "2014-11-08T17:18:20Z")

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I’m confused about the 32K bins limit per namespace, is it referring to the total bins you can have or the total unique bin names?

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**Author:** ![wchu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a5b964/32.png) [@wchu](https://discuss.aerospike.com/u/wchu)\
**Post date:** [November 10, 2014, 3:22am UTC](https://discuss.aerospike.com/t/bin-per-namespace-limit/495/2 "2014-11-10T03:22:44Z")

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It is the number of unique bin names that has been used for the namespace.