Do you perhaps mean disk space instead of memory? If so, and if you have left the N-val at the default of 3, then you will need at least 60G of space before any other overhead is accounted for.
-Justin On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 7:04 PM, Maria Neise <maria.nei...@googlemail.com> wrote: > Hey, > thank you a lot for your hints. > I have 20000000 records à 1KB. The key is a string like > "user123456789". I am using the default backend bitcask. There is just > one machine in the cluster and I didn't change the N-val. I already > tried to insert the 20GB of data, but 40GB of memory were obviously > not enough, because only 7000000 records were inserted. So I thought > mybe 150GB should be enough? > > Cheers, > Maria > > 2011/7/15 Justin Sheehy <jus...@basho.com>: >> Hi, Maria. >> >> In addition to what others have said, I would note that (at least) the >> following issues matter quite a bit for such planning: >> >> - how many items the data is broken up into >> - how large the keys will be (especially if they are very large due to >> embedded structure) >> - what storage engine ("backend") is in use >> - how many machines are in the cluster >> - the N-val, or how many replicas are being stored (default is 3) >> >> If you know those things, then you can make a more meaningful estimation. >> >> I hope that this helps. >> >> -Justin >> >> >> >> >> On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 6:02 PM, Maria Neise >> <maria.nei...@googlemail.com> wrote: >>> Hey, >>> I would like to store 20GB of data with Riak. Does anyone know how >>> much memory Riak would need for that? >>> >>> Cheers, >>> Maria >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> riak-users mailing list >>> riak-users@lists.basho.com >>> http://lists.basho.com/mailman/listinfo/riak-users_lists.basho.com >>> >> > _______________________________________________ riak-users mailing list riak-users@lists.basho.com http://lists.basho.com/mailman/listinfo/riak-users_lists.basho.com