Re: Recommendation for hosting multi tenant clusters

2013-08-14 Thread Aaron Morton
I also saw somewhere (may have been twitter) that the reads they benchmark against for provisioned IOPS is something like 4KB or 8KB. It was something small, smaller than the page size memmapping will use anyway. Cheers - Aaron Morton Cassandra Consultant New Zealand @aaronmor

Re: Recommendation for hosting multi tenant clusters

2013-08-13 Thread Ben Bromhead
http://www.mail-archive.com/user@cassandra.apache.org/msg11022.html sums it up pretty well. Optimised images and provisioned IOPS may help, but whatever way you spin it your reads and writes are still going out on the network somewhere. EBS is like a giant SAN which will drop out at any second,

Re: Recommendation for hosting multi tenant clusters

2013-08-13 Thread Jon Haddad
I strongly recommend against EBS, even with optimized & ebs provisioned. The throughput you'll get from local drives is significantly better than what you'll get with EBS (even 4K iops provisioned) On Aug 13, 2013, at 2:10 PM, Rahul Gupta wrote: > I am working on requirement to host multi ten

Recommendation for hosting multi tenant clusters

2013-08-13 Thread Rahul Gupta
I am working on requirement to host multi tenant Cassandra cluster (or set of clusters) on Amazon EC2 (AWS). With everything else sorted out, I have below question where I am looking for recommendations: Does Amazon's recent support of EBS optimized images changes whole discussion around EBS v