How many photos can iPhoto handle?

We have close to 26,000 photos in our 2011 iPhoto library (we create a new library each year and use iPhoto Manager to switch between them. This helps us keep our personal and professional photos separate, and it also helps us archive older data).
26,000 photos seems like a lot to me, but I can't find anywhere the maximum or recommended number of photos. At what point do we need to look at using a professional product (like Aperture or Lightroom) to manage our photos?
Thanks.
Eric

250,000 images per Library. Put it this way, you need to migrate to Aperture when you want the additional features.
Personally, I have just short of 40k images in my main Library. I’ve seen reports on here from folks with in excess of 130,000
Regards
TD

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