Re: Production with Single Node

2016-01-27 Thread Nikolay Mihaylov
HI We have 2 - 3 installations with single node Cassandra. They working fine, no problems there, except if Cassandra stops, everything stops. Even on one node, we usually "rolling" 500-600 GB data, sometimes even 2-3 TB. We use mostly standard configuration with almost no changes there. Here are

Re: Production with Single Node

2016-01-22 Thread Anuj Wadehra
And I think in a 3 node cluster, RAID 0 would do the job instead of RAID 5 . So you will need less storage to get same disk space. But you will get protection against disk failures and infact entire node failure. Anuj Sent from Yahoo Mail on Android On Sat, 23 Jan, 2016 at 10:30 am, Anuj Wa

Re: Production with Single Node

2016-01-22 Thread Anuj Wadehra
I think Jonathan said it earlier. You may be happy with the performance for now as you are using the same commitlog settings that you use in large clusters. Test the new setting recommended so that you know the real picture. Or be prepared to lose some data in case of failure. Other than durabil

Re: Production with Single Node

2016-01-22 Thread Jack Krupansky
You do of course have the simple technical matters, most of which need to be addressed with a proof of concept implementation, related to memory, storage, latency, and throughput. I mean, with a scaled cluster you can always add nodes to increase capacity and throughput, and reduce latency, but wit

Re: Production with Single Node

2016-01-22 Thread Jonathan Haddad
ssandra is in its replication – as a single node >>> solution, it’s slower and less flexible than alternatives >>> >> >> >>> >>> From: John Lammers >>> Reply-To: "user@cassandra.apache.org" >>> Date: Friday, January 22, 2016 at 12:57 P

Re: Production with Single Node

2016-01-22 Thread John Lammers
Thanks for your response Jack. We are already sold on distributed databases, HA and scaling. We just have some small deployments coming up where there's no money for servers to run multiple Cassandra nodes. So, aside from the lack of HA, I'm asking if a single Cassandra node would be viable in a

Re: Production with Single Node

2016-01-22 Thread Jack Krupansky
>> > > >> >> From: John Lammers >> Reply-To: "user@cassandra.apache.org" >> Date: Friday, January 22, 2016 at 12:57 PM >> To: Cassandra Mailing List >> >> Subject: Fwd: Production with Single Node >> >> Thanks for your reply Sebastian

Re: Production with Single Node

2016-01-22 Thread John Lammers
gt; Reply-To: "user@cassandra.apache.org" >> Date: Friday, January 22, 2016 at 12:57 PM >> To: Cassandra Mailing List >> >> Subject: Fwd: Production with Single Node >> >> Thanks for your reply Sebastian. >> >> They are specialized d

Re: Production with Single Node

2016-01-22 Thread Jonathan Haddad
solution, > it’s slower and less flexible than alternatives > > From: John Lammers > Reply-To: "user@cassandra.apache.org" > Date: Friday, January 22, 2016 at 12:57 PM > To: Cassandra Mailing List > > Subject: Fwd: Production with Single Node > > Th

Re: Production with Single Node

2016-01-22 Thread John Lammers
er and less flexible than alternatives > > > From: John Lammers > Reply-To: "user@cassandra.apache.org" > Date: Friday, January 22, 2016 at 12:57 PM > To: Cassandra Mailing List > > Subject: Fwd: Production with Single Node > > Thanks for your reply Se

Re: Production with Single Node

2016-01-22 Thread Jeff Jirsa
The value of cassandra is in its replication – as a single node solution, it’s slower and less flexible than alternatives From: John Lammers Reply-To: "user@cassandra.apache.org" Date: Friday, January 22, 2016 at 12:57 PM To: Cassandra Mailing List Subject: Fwd: Production with S

Fwd: Production with Single Node

2016-01-22 Thread John Lammers
need ammo to convince others. Or failing that, what can be done to make this configuration as safe & robust as possible? Thanks! --John -- Forwarded message -- From: Sebastian Estevez Date: Fri, Jan 22, 2016 at 3:41 PM Subject: Fwd: Production with Single Node To: j

Re: Production with Single Node

2016-01-22 Thread Dan Kinder
I could see this being desirable if you are deploying the exact same application as you deploy in other places with many nodes, and you know the load will be low. It may be a rare situation but in such a case you save big effort by not having to change your application logic. Not that I necessaril

Fwd: Production with Single Node

2016-01-22 Thread John Lammers
challenge now is a new market consisting of many small sites that reportedly can't afford a multi-server solution. These would be permanent, one node systems. --John -- Forwarded message -- From: Jonathan Haddad Date: Fri, Jan 22, 2016 at 3:34 PM Subject: Re: Production

Re: Production with Single Node

2016-01-22 Thread Jonathan Haddad
My opinion: http://rustyrazorblade.com/2013/09/cassandra-faq-can-i-start-with-a-single-node/ TL;DR: the only reason to run 1 node in prod is if you're super broke but know you'll need to scale up almost immediately after going to prod (maybe after getting some funding). If you're planning on doin

Re: Production with Single Node

2016-01-22 Thread Jack Krupansky
The risks would be about the same as with a single-node Postgres or MySQL database, except that you wouldn't have the benefit of full SQL. How much data (rows, columns), what kind of load pattern (heavy write, heavy update, heavy query), and what types of queries (primary key-only, slices, filteri

Production with Single Node

2016-01-22 Thread John Lammers
After deploying a number of production systems with up to 10 Cassandra nodes each, we are looking at deploying a small, all-in-one-server system with only a single, local node (Cassandra 2.1.11). What are the risks of such a configuration? The virtual disk would be running RAID 5 and the disk con