Re: Production with Single Node

2016-01-22 Thread John Lammers
Thanks for your response Jack. We are already sold on distributed databases, HA and scaling. We just have some small deployments coming up where there's no money for servers to run multiple Cassandra nodes. So, aside from the lack of HA, I'm asking if a single Cassandra node would be viable in a

Re: Production with Single Node

2016-01-22 Thread John Lammers
ot of code. For these small sites, we need to scale *down*, not up. Like it says in Sebastián's email signature "predictably scalable to any size," only the size this time is smaller, not larger. -- John Lammers | karoshealth +1 519 594 0940 x225 | Skype: johnatkaros 7 Fath

Re: Production with Single Node

2016-01-22 Thread John Lammers
er and less flexible than alternatives > > > From: John Lammers > Reply-To: "user@cassandra.apache.org" > Date: Friday, January 22, 2016 at 12:57 PM > To: Cassandra Mailing List > > Subject: Fwd: Production with Single Node > > Thanks for your reply Se

Fwd: Production with Single Node

2016-01-22 Thread John Lammers
uldn't have the benefit of full SQL. How much data (rows, columns), what kind of load pattern (heavy write, heavy update, heavy query), and what types of queries (primary key-only, slices, filtering, secondary indexes, etc.)? -- Jack Krupansky On Fri, Jan 22, 2016 at 3:24 PM, John Lammers

Fwd: Production with Single Node

2016-01-22 Thread John Lammers
Thanks for your reply Jonathan. We chose Cassandra for its incredible performance and robustness for large sites. Our application is designed from the ground up to take full advantage of its column oriented data store (giving up the ability to also run with a relational database backend). The ch

Production with Single Node

2016-01-22 Thread John Lammers
After deploying a number of production systems with up to 10 Cassandra nodes each, we are looking at deploying a small, all-in-one-server system with only a single, local node (Cassandra 2.1.11). What are the risks of such a configuration? The virtual disk would be running RAID 5 and the disk con