Hi Drew, One other disadvantage is the lack of "consistency level" and "replication". Both ware part of the high availability / redundancy. So you would really need to backup your single-node-"cluster" to some other external location.
Good luck! 2012/3/15 Drew Kutcharian <d...@venarc.com> > Hi, > > We are working on a project that initially is going to have very little > data, but we would like to use Cassandra to ease the future scalability. > Due to budget constraints, we were thinking to run a single node Cassandra > for now and then add more nodes as required. > > I was wondering if it is recommended to run a single node cassandra in > production? Are there any other issues besides lack of high availability? > > Thanks, > > Drew > >
