RE: one big cluster vs multiple smaller clusters

2013-10-13 Thread Plotnik, Alexey
If you are talking about scaling: Cassandra scaling is absolutely horizontal without namenodes or other Mongo-bulshit-like intermediate daemons. And that’s why one big cluster has the same throughput as many smaller clusters. What will you do when your small clusters will exceed it’s capacity? Ca

Re: one big cluster vs multiple smaller clusters

2013-10-13 Thread Wz1975
we have choices of making one big cluster vs a few small clusters. I am trying to get pros and cons for both options in genera.  Thanks. -Wei Sent from my Samsung smartphone on AT&T Original message Subject: Re: one big cluster vs multiple smaller clusters From: Jon Haddad

Re: one big cluster vs multiple smaller clusters

2013-10-13 Thread Jon Haddad
This is a pretty vague question. What are you trying to achieve? On Oct 12, 2013, at 9:05 PM, Wei Zhu wrote: > Hi, > As we bring more use cases to Cassandra, we have been thinking about the best > way to host it. Let's say we will have 15 physical machines available, we can > use all of them

How can someone change compression type on system keyspace

2013-10-13 Thread David Beneš
Hello, I'm trying to change compression on keyspace "system" from snappy to LZ4 in cassandra 1.2.10 This keyspace is read-only and command: USE system; ALTER TABLE "hints" WITH compression = { 'sstable_compression' : 'LZ4Compressor'}; fails with: Bad Request: system keyspace is not user-modifiab

Re: Unable to start server

2013-10-13 Thread ๏̯͡๏
I was able to connect to test cluster using deepakkv@ubuntu:~/ebay/softwares/apache-cassandra-2.0.1$ bin/cassandra-cli -h localhost -p 9160 Connected to: "Test Cluster" on localhost/9160 Welcome to Cassandra CLI version 2.0.1 Please consider using the more convenient cqlsh instead of CLI CQL3 is f

Re: Unable to start server

2013-10-13 Thread ๏̯͡๏
Am unable to connect to single node "Test Cluster" from casssandra client. Upon starting server, i see the following logs deepakkv@ubuntu:~/ebay/softwares/apache-cassandra-2.0.1$ bin/cassandra -f xss = -ea -javaagent:bin/../lib/jamm-0.2.5.jar -XX:+UseThreadPriorities -XX:ThreadPriorityPolicy=42

Re: Unable to start server

2013-10-13 Thread ๏̯͡๏
Thanks. Worked with 1.7 $ echo $JAVA_HOME /usr/lib/jvm/java-7-oracle $ java -version java version "1.7.0_40" Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.7.0_40-b43) Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 24.0-b56, mixed mode) deepakkv@ubuntu:~/ebay/softwares/apache-cassandra-2.0.1$ bin/cassandra -