I agree. HBase in a box is essentially MySQL. HBase is built for a cluster.
On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 11:17 AM, Andrew Purtell <apurt...@apache.org> wrote: > On that scale, why not use MySQL or Postgres? > > "HBase in a box" is like "dynamic equilibrium", or "virtual reality", or > "jumbo shrimp"... :-) > > - Andy > > > > ----- Original Message ---- >> From: Otis Gospodnetic <otis_gospodne...@yahoo.com> >> To: hbase-user@hadoop.apache.org >> Sent: Fri, January 15, 2010 12:54:42 PM >> Subject: HBase on 1 box? how big? >> >> Hello, >> >> I understand running HBase on a single box is kind of >> pointless (thanks Andrew Purtell for the reply about numbers of >> boxes)... but I was wondering what kind of box might one need to >> host/run various HBase/Hadoop processes? >> >> Imagine I just need to have "HBase in a box", so to speak. :) >> >> I understand it depends on the volume on data, DB structure, request rates... >> I don't have those numbers, but say I want HBase to have 100M rows with >> data from Apache logs and want to run the common web analytics/stats >> reports on a nightly basis. >> >> * Would an EC2 Large Instance suffice? >> -- Large Instance 7.5 GB of memory, 4 EC2 Compute Units (2 virtual cores >> with 2 EC2 Compute Units each), 850 GB of local instance storage, 64-bit >> platform >> >> * How about EC2 Small Instance? >> -- Small Instance (Default) 1.7 GB of memory, 1 EC2 Compute Unit (1 virtual >> core >> with 1 EC2 Compute Unit), 160 GB of local instance storage, 32-bit platform >> >> Thanks, >> Otis >> P.S. >> hw specs from http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/#instance > > > > > >
