Hey, something that is impressive about Riak is how well it performs even on super low end cloud virtualization (unlike for example, couchbase, which hardly runs at all unless you have quad cores per each node)
Having so much fun benchmarking, it's really distracting me from coding! the cluster : 5 nodes on Windows Azure cloud Ubuntu 12.04, Riak 1.2.4 node are xsmall vm (1 shared cpu core, 768 mb ram) The xmall vms are only $15/month and they are not recommended for "production". but in a 5 node riak cluster, it's really nothing to scoff at! I suspect the main bottleneck is not the cpu or disk, rather I think it's the each xsmall node is allowed only 5Mbit/sec on the ethernet. Here is a basho_bench graph, if anyone feels like viewing it https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/22076075/summary-xsmall-bitcask-5nodes-20min.png note the basho bench was running on a quad core machine on the same vlan with 5 workers. _______________________________________________ riak-users mailing list riak-users@lists.basho.com http://lists.basho.com/mailman/listinfo/riak-users_lists.basho.com
