Re: Why don't you start off with a “single & small” Cassandra server as you usually do it with MySQL?

2013-09-18 Thread Vegard Berget
Hi, The idea behind Cassandra is not the same as for MySQL.  First of all you can't get fault tolerance with one node.  I don't think Cassandra nodes are more prone to be unavailable, but by using replication you can get more availability right away.  If you have multiple instances when you start o

Re: Why don't you start off with a “single & small” Cassandra server as you usually do it with MySQL?

2013-09-18 Thread Jonathan Haddad
For future references, a blog post on this topic. http://rustyrazorblade.com/2013/09/cassandra-faq-can-i-start-with-a-single-node/ On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 6:38 AM, Michał Michalski wrote: > You might be interested in this: > http://mail-archives.apache.**org/mod_mbox/cassandra-user/**201308.mbo

Re: Why don't you start off with a “single & small” Cassandra server as you usually do it with MySQL?

2013-09-18 Thread Michał Michalski
You might be interested in this: http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/cassandra-user/201308.mbox/%3ccaeqobhpav25pcgjfwbkmd1rzxvrif94e6lpybpj3mu_bqn9...@mail.gmail.com%3E M. W dniu 18.09.2013 15:34, Ertio Lew pisze: For any website just starting out, the load initially is minimal & grows wit

Why don't you start off with a “single & small” Cassandra server as you usually do it with MySQL?

2013-09-18 Thread Ertio Lew
For any website just starting out, the load initially is minimal & grows with a slow pace initially. People usually start with their MySQL based sites with a single server(***that too a VPS not a dedicated server) running as both app server as well as DB server & usually get too far with this setup

Re: Why don't you start off with a "single & small" Cassandra server as you usually do it with MySQL ?

2013-08-27 Thread Ben
If you are comfortable with the Cassandra data model, you understand how a QUORUM read and write work at various replication factors and you think that the growth of your dataset will somewhat fast as Rob mentioned. Go for it! Just remember to always benchmark performance and test what happens w

Re: Why don't you start off with a "single & small" Cassandra server as you usually do it with MySQL ?

2013-08-27 Thread Robert Coli
On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 3:04 AM, Aklin_81 wrote: > But so far what I have seen, it's something very different with Cassandra. > People usually recommend starting out with atleast a 3 node cluster, (on > dedicated servers) with lots & lots of RAM. 4GB or 8GB RAM is what they > suggest to start wit

Re: Why don't you start off with a "single & small" Cassandra server as you usually do it with MySQL ?

2013-08-27 Thread Tony Anecito
@cassandra.apache.org Sent: Tuesday, August 27, 2013 10:11 AM Subject: Re: Why don't you start off with a "single & small" Cassandra server as you usually do it with MySQL ? On 2013-08-27, at 6:04 AM, Aklin_81 wrote: > For any website just starting out, the load initia

Re: Why don't you start off with a "single & small" Cassandra server as you usually do it with MySQL ?

2013-08-27 Thread Mina Naguib
On 2013-08-27, at 6:04 AM, Aklin_81 wrote: > For any website just starting out, the load initially is minimal & grows with > a slow pace initially. People usually start with their MySQL based sites > with a single server(***that too a VPS not a dedicated server) running as > both app server

Why don't you start off with a "single & small" Cassandra server as you usually do it with MySQL ?

2013-08-27 Thread Aklin_81
For any website just starting out, the load initially is minimal & grows with a slow pace initially. People usually start with their MySQL based sites with a single server(***that too a VPS not a dedicated server) running as both app server as well as DB server & usually get too far with this setu