Re: Riak for Messaging Project Question

2012-02-23 Thread charles
sday, 23 February, 2012 6:57pm To: "Aphyr" Cc: char...@contentomni.com, riak-users@lists.basho.com Subject: Re: Riak for Messaging Project Question On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 7:57 PM, Aphyr wrote: > Riak clusters have a functional upper limit of around a hundred nodes; > inter-node t

Re: Riak for Messaging Project Question

2012-02-23 Thread David Smith
On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 7:57 PM, Aphyr wrote: > Riak clusters have a functional upper limit of around a hundred nodes; > inter-node traffic dominates at that level. That said, at that scale it's > gonna be WAY cheaper to run your own HW. If I were speccing a cluster for > 16tb of data/year: As of

Re: Riak for Messaging Project Question

2012-02-22 Thread charles
essage- From: "Alexander Sicular" Sent: Thursday, 23 February, 2012 4:25am To: "Jeremiah Peschka" Cc: char...@contentomni.com, "riak-users" Subject: Re: Riak for Messaging Project Question Actuallly, I think my math was faulty, it's actually 800 billio

Re: Riak for Messaging Project Question

2012-02-22 Thread Alexander Sicular
> > Actuallly, I think my math was faulty, it's actually 800 billion keys, so > that's many more servers than expected. A few billion? Pssh. You know what's cool? A Trillion. A few things jump off the page from the comments on this thread: Static allocation of ring_creation_size. Once you se

Re: Riak for Messaging Project Question

2012-02-22 Thread Aphyr
On 02/22/2012 02:10 PM, char...@contentomni.com wrote: 1. Is Riak a good fit for this solution going up to and beyond 20 million users (i.e. terabytes upon terabytes added per year)? The better question might be: what do you actually plan to do with that much data? 2. I plan to use 2i, whic

Re: Riak for Messaging Project Question

2012-02-22 Thread Jeremiah Peschka
volumes, it just takes a lot of time to move from one DC to another when you don't have control over the gear. Your other option, of course, is just to lease entire servers from RackSpace. They're very helpful when you get to certain levels of investment with them. > > > Thanks

Re: Riak for Messaging Project Question

2012-02-22 Thread Jeremiah Peschka
Responses inline. --- Jeremiah Peschka Managing Director, Brent Ozar PLF, LLC On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 2:10 PM, wrote: > I'm building an online tool/app that is heavily dependent on messaging. This > messaging is simple text, nothing complicated, and it will take place > between my server back-

Riak for Messaging Project Question

2012-02-22 Thread charles
I'm building an online tool/app that is heavily dependent on messaging. This messaging is simple text, nothing complicated, and it will take place between my server back-end and the desktop/device. These messages would be very easy to store in Riak. Each message is created after a specific

Riak for Messaging Project Question

2012-02-22 Thread charles
I'm building an online tool/app that is heavily dependent on messaging. This messaging is simple text, nothing complicated, and it will take place between my server back-end and the desktop/device. These messages would be very easy to store in Riak. Each message is created after a specific us