With no information whatsoever about size of the data, I would guess a cost of about $4000 / node with annual hosting and power requirements about $2000/year.
This is probably no more accurate than one order of magnitude. It has a decent chance of being on the close order of magnitude. In particular, you might want a lot of memory. It is unlikely you want a lot of disks. You can do the math yourself on the EC2 costs. On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 9:12 AM, Weishung Chung <weish...@gmail.com> wrote: > I am trying to estimate the cost of hosting own HBase cluster vs using EC2. > Could anyone give me some guidance? > Cluster size ~ 6 to 8 nodes > Usage ~ at least 12 hours/day with lot of read/write operations. (I know I > need to have more concrete usage number here) > > Thank you so much :) >