Re: Cassandra on Cloud platforms experience

2016-11-04 Thread Oskar Kjellin
It is good enough if you do not care about automation. If you care about automation (and you really should), GossipPropertyFileSnitch is not good enough as it has to be manually updated. Same with availability set, fault domain isn't available for the instance as metadata as it is on AWS. You stil

Re: Cassandra on Cloud platforms experience

2016-11-04 Thread Vladimir Yudovin
Hi, >1. No native snitch It's not great problem. GossipPropertyFileSnitch is good enough. >2. No concept of availability zones. Azure does have such concept - Availability Set. It provides three fault domain (availability zone in Amazon terms) and 20 updates domains. >4. Even running SS

Re: Cassandra on Cloud platforms experience

2016-11-04 Thread Oskar Kjellin
Also, if you're running it on azure you should have a look at Netflix Priam. That really helped us automate stuff. Dynamo db works well if you don't want to spend hours in running your cluster. If I were to have the option to run on AWS I would use Dynamo when possible. Sent from my iPhone >

Re: Cassandra on Cloud platforms experience

2016-11-04 Thread Oskar Kjellin
So I've run Cassandra on both Aws and azure. I would strongly suggest that if you have the option, run as far away from azure as you can. Here's a list of issues I have running Cassandra on azure: 1. No native snitch 2. No concept of availability zones. This makes it impossible for Cassandra to

Cassandra on Cloud platforms experience

2016-11-03 Thread cass savy
I would like to hear from the community on their experiences or lesson learnt on hosting Cassandra in cloud platforms like 1. Google Cloud Platform 2. AWS 3. Azure 1. Which cloud hosting is better and Why? 2. What differences of C* over vendor provided NoSQL DB like (Bigtable, Dynamo,Azure Docu