What a tease Ryan! ;) J-D
On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 1:50 PM, Ryan Rawson <[email protected]> wrote: > You can run HBase on any size of machine all single node, by default > when you start hbase it will store files in /tmp and everything is in > 1 JVM. How much data can you jam in there? I'm not totally sure, > probably a lot more than you might think, but again limited by the > disk. I run it on my mac laptop for example. > > I have a patch that will allow a single JVM including zookeeper, but > it is locked up in my private git for now. This would get rid of the > need to ssh localhost just to start local hbase. > > -ryan > > On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 1:22 PM, Seth Ladd <[email protected]> wrote: >> 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 <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]> >>>> To: [email protected] >>>> 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 >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >> >
