Hi Marina,
there is no real limit, but of course it will generate load on the server. When updating artifacts in 6.0.6 there was a risk of overloading the system because one index creation process could keep the speed when doing mass imports, but this problem is gone in newer versions as far as I know.
the most common mistake we see out in the wild is to use basic auth to access the api. This will trigger an authentication with jts for every request that will bring your system in trouble.
For artifacts you need to se the oslc documentation for requirements.
If you want to skip the research and have an easier API you could have a look at our DNG API Gateway that provides and easy Rest-API for reading and writing data in a performant and system resource preserving way: https://requisis.com/en/produkte/elm-api.html
Regards,
Nikolai