Re: How to scale Cassandra?

2011-07-04 Thread ZFabrik Subscriber
will pretty much always be > your disks. On our cluster, we currently have more than 1TB per node and it > holds but we find that our sweet spot should be around 400-500GB per node. > > Regards, > > SC > > > On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 3:01 PM, ZFabrik Subscribe

Re: How to scale Cassandra?

2011-07-04 Thread ZFabrik Subscriber
Let's assume you have 50 nodes and their work-load grows simultaneously. You discover that the nodes are about to reach their limits (btw. what is the actual limit of a Cassandra node? 100GB? 500GB? 1TB?) You decide to add another 50 nodes. Do you do this within one step? Or one after the other