Re: Cassandra in the cloud

2010-06-06 Thread David Boxenhorn
rives to achieve better I/O and have machines in > >>>> multiple Availability Zones with a custom EndPointSnitch that > >>>> replicates the data between AZs for high availability (to be > >>>> open-sourced/contributed at some point). > >>>&

Re: Cassandra in the cloud

2010-06-03 Thread Ben Standefer
>>>> replicates the data between AZs for high availability (to be >>>> open-sourced/contributed at some point). >>>> >>>> Using XFS as described here >>>> http://developer.amazonwebservices.com/connect/entry.jspa?externalID=1663

Re: Cassandra in the cloud

2010-06-03 Thread Mike Subelsky
lID=1663 >>> also makes it very easy to snapshot your cluster to S3. >>> >>> We've had no real problems with EC2 and Cassandra, it's been great. >>> >>> -Ben Standefer >>> >>> >>> On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 11:51 AM, Eric E

Re: Cassandra in the cloud

2010-06-03 Thread Ben Standefer
>> >> On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 11:51 AM, Eric Evans wrote: >>> On Thu, 2010-06-03 at 11:29 +0300, David Boxenhorn wrote: >>>> We want to try out Cassandra in the cloud. Any recommendations? >>>> Comments? >>>> >>>> Should we use

Re: Cassandra in the cloud

2010-06-03 Thread Mike Subelsky
at 11:51 AM, Eric Evans wrote: >> On Thu, 2010-06-03 at 11:29 +0300, David Boxenhorn wrote: >>> We want to try out Cassandra in the cloud. Any recommendations? >>> Comments? >>> >>> Should we use Amazon? Rackspace? Something else? >> >> I p

Re: Cassandra in the cloud

2010-06-03 Thread Ben Standefer
ic Evans wrote: > On Thu, 2010-06-03 at 11:29 +0300, David Boxenhorn wrote: >> We want to try out Cassandra in the cloud. Any recommendations? >> Comments? >> >> Should we use Amazon? Rackspace? Something else? > > I personally haven't used Cassandra on EC2, bu

Re: Cassandra in the cloud

2010-06-03 Thread Eric Evans
On Thu, 2010-06-03 at 11:29 +0300, David Boxenhorn wrote: > We want to try out Cassandra in the cloud. Any recommendations? > Comments? > > Should we use Amazon? Rackspace? Something else? I personally haven't used Cassandra on EC2, but others have reported significantly bet

Re: Cassandra in the cloud

2010-06-03 Thread David King
> We want to try out Cassandra in the cloud. Any recommendations? Comments? > Should we use Amazon? Rackspace? Something else? I'm using it on Amazon with mostly success. I'd recommend increasing Phi from 8 to 10, use the 4-core/15gb instances to start, and if you plan to be

Cassandra in the cloud

2010-06-03 Thread David Boxenhorn
We want to try out Cassandra in the cloud. Any recommendations? Comments? Should we use Amazon? Rackspace? Something else?