Material Repository design

Hi MDM experts,
Seek your help in the following matter please.
I am trying to design a customized matrial repository and have the following challenge based on the business requirement.
1. Have to link each material to its site's item number.
Background: Each site initiate material creation and starts with a site -item number to which they are familiar with.If there is a material/similar material already available, the site number gets linked to that material.Therefor one material may have linked to several sites's item number.
I am trying to design one Qualified table to link all the sites with their respective item no related to a material.Challenge here is, there are about 2 million material record and an average 5 site items for each material makes the Qualified table size to 10 million.Is it going to work ?
Is the relationship table or lookup hierarchy is a better solution for the scenario?
How to make site-id and item number a group item and unique for the Qual table?
Thanks in advance for all your help
reo
Appreciate your suggestion

Can anybody send the material master pre-configured repository. (I think i dont have sufficient authorization to download them) i have tried the following path:
<b>"SAP delivers out of the box content for these repositories in SAP Market place.
http://service.sap.com/swdc
Entry by Application Group ->Entry by Application Group->
Support Packages and Patches->SAP NetWeaver->SAP MDM" SAP MDM 5.5-> Master Data Server->MDM BUSINESS CONTENT 5.5->#OS independent->MDMBC55004P_3-10003437.ZIP"</b>
But i am unable to see the SAP MDM itself with my marketplace id.
<b>If anybody having the preconfigured material master repository zip file please send it to below mentioned mail id
[email protected]</b>
Regards,
Chand.

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