Re: Riak 2 Node cluster

2013-08-15 Thread Nico Huysamen
Hi EricYeah, that was exactly what I thought. All things considered though, the 4GB RAM requirements is only an recommendation correct? For example, if we do not expect very high volumes of key/value pairs in our application initially (probably around 3-5 million), then would the 5x 2GB RAM VPS

Re: Riak 2 Node cluster

2013-08-15 Thread Eric Redmond
It's hard to answer that, because both configurations are below Riak's recommended specifications. You should have at least 5 servers, and they should have at least 4GB RAM each. The minimums are for different reasons.The minimum RAM is clear: keeping things like keys resident reduces the chances o

Re: Riak 2 Node cluster

2013-08-15 Thread Nico Huysamen
I am also interested in the answer to this. If I had to choose between having 2 dedicated servers, each with 32GB RAM, or 5 virtual servers each with 2GB RAM (which just happens to be the case for us at the moment), my gut feel is go with the 2 dedicated servers. But Basho seems pretty fixed on

Riak 2 Node cluster

2013-08-13 Thread Баканов Дмитрий
Hello, I need to decide what database we will choose for our project. Certainly, we need only 2 physical nodes (active-standby). Riak is good for us, becase it is Erlang-based, as our project. But is's known that riak cluster should have at least five nodes. I have some problems with my cluster