[ANNOUNCE] storm-cassandra 0.4.0-rc2

2013-08-21 Thread P. Taylor Goetz
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Re: Cassandra with SAN

2013-02-21 Thread P. Taylor Goetz
I shouldn't have used the word "spinning"... SSDs are a great option as well. I also agree with all the "expensive SPOF" points others have made. Sent from my iPhone On Feb 21, 2013, at 6:56 PM, "P. Taylor Goetz" wrote: > Cassandra is designed to write an

Re: Cassandra with SAN

2013-02-21 Thread P. Taylor Goetz
Cassandra is designed to write and read data in a way that is optimized for physical spinning disks. Running C* on a SAN introduces a layer of abstraction that, at best negates those optimizations, and at worst introduces additional overhead. Sent from my iPhone On Feb 21, 2013, at 6:42 PM, Ka