Re: Possible application

2011-02-10 Thread Rock, Paul
Well, you can make Cassandra work on a single box (or multiple instances on a single box if need be). My experimental/dev cluster that my team plays with to try things out is 6 nodes running on 6 rather small cloud VM's and it works fine. So I'd say yes, it work in the merely big scale. On Feb

Possible application

2011-02-10 Thread Benson Margulies
Hello there, I'm trying to sort out whether Cassandra is a good pick as the data store for a problem I've got. The shape of the thing is a large number of hash tables. On a merely pretty big scale, it can all run on one pretty big machine. On a gigantic scale, which is an eventual goal, it will n