Any suggestions about running Cassandra on Windows servers for production use?

2013-10-07 Thread Vassilis Bekiaris
Hello all, we are planning a Cassandra 1.2 installation at a client site; the client will run operations themselves and based on their IT team's experience they are more inclined towards running Cassandra nodes on Windows servers, however given proper arguments they would also consider using linux

Re: Any suggestions about running Cassandra on Windows servers for production use?

2013-10-08 Thread Robert Coli
On Mon, Oct 7, 2013 at 5:35 AM, Vassilis Bekiaris < bekiar...@iconplatforms.com> wrote: > we are planning a Cassandra 1.2 installation at a client site; the client > will run operations themselves and based on their IT team's experience they > are more inclined towards running Cassandra nodes on W

Re: Any suggestions about running Cassandra on Windows servers for production use?

2013-10-09 Thread Vassilis Bekiaris
Hi Rob, thanks for your insight on the matter. We will put together a benchmark and hopefully get back with some meaningful results. We have a pair of identical servers and intend to run YCSB workloads on default datastax Cassandra community edition installations on Ubuntu & Windows. Any suggestio