Re: Cassandra vs Couchbase benchmarks

2012-10-02 Thread aaron morton
A few notes: * +1 for missing RF and CL cassandra stats. * Using stripped EBS for m1.xlarge is a bad choice, unless they are using provisioned IOPS. Which they do not say. * Cassandra JVM settings are *not* standard. It's a low new heap size and a larger than default heap size. * "memtable siz

Re: Cassandra vs Couchbase benchmarks

2012-10-01 Thread horschi
Hi Andy, things I find odd: - Replicacount=1 for mongo and couchdb. How is that a realistic benchmark? I always want at least 2 replicas for my data. Maybe thats just me. - On the Mongo Config slide they said they disabled journaling. Why do you disable all safety mechanisms that you would want i

Re: Cassandra vs Couchbase benchmarks

2012-10-01 Thread Michael Kjellman
From their wiki: "The replication is an incremental one way process involving two databases (a source and a destination). The aim of the replication is that at the end of the process, all active documents on the source database are also in the destination database and all documents that were delete

Re: Cassandra vs Couchbase benchmarks

2012-10-01 Thread Peter Lin
Here is my own experience testing couchdb versus cassandra for an internal application. My test wasn't some dummy test case, it was realistic workloads that is 95% write and 5% read. We insert data in batches to maximize throughput. The critical thing for my use case was to answer "when does the s

Cassandra vs Couchbase benchmarks

2012-10-01 Thread Andy Cobley
There are some interesting results in the benchmarks below: http://www.slideshare.net/renatko/couchbase-performance-benchmarking Without starting a flame war etc, I'm interested if these results should be considered "Fair and Balanced" or if the methodology is flawed in some way ? (for instance i