That would be good for developing disconnected against the API. Any plan on releasing a patch Ryan?
- Andy ----- Original Message ---- > From: Ryan Rawson <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Sent: Fri, January 15, 2010 1:50:32 PM > Subject: Re: HBase on 1 box? how big? > > 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 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 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 > >>> 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 > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >
