Re: Expanding Cassandra on EC2 with consistency

2012-07-04 Thread Alex Major
Hi Dan, We run RF 2 on RAID0 EBS drives. The reason we use EBS over on-instance storage is two fold; Firstly we have a relatively small cluster ( 4 nodes ), so we're quite sensitive to any AWS issues (at the region level). If we had a larger cluster then we would definitely use ephemeral storage

Re: Expanding Cassandra on EC2 with consistency

2012-07-03 Thread Dan Foody
Hi Alex, Can you share what replication factor you're running? And, are you using ephemeral disks or EBS volumes? Thanks! - Dan On Jul 3, 2012, at 5:52 PM, Alex Major wrote: > Hi Mike, > > We've run a small (4 node) cluster in the EU region since September last > year. We run across all 3

Re: Expanding Cassandra on EC2 with consistency

2012-07-03 Thread Alex Major
Hi Mike, We've run a small (4 node) cluster in the EU region since September last year. We run across all 3 availability zones in the EU region, with 2 nodes in one AZ and then a further node in each AZ. The latency difference between running inside of and between AZ's has been minimal in our expe

Re: Expanding Cassandra on EC2 with consistency

2012-07-03 Thread Michael Theroux
Yes, I saw LOCAL_QUORUM. The definition I saw was: Ensure that the write has been written to / 2 + 1 nodes, within the local datacenter (requiresNetworkTopologyStrategy) This will allow a quorum within a datacenter. However, I think this means that if availability zones are racks, that the

Re: Expanding Cassandra on EC2 with consistency

2012-07-03 Thread Robin Verlangen
Hi Mike, I'm not sure about all your questions, however you should take a look at LOCAL_QUORUM for your question about consistency level reads/writes. 2012/7/3 Michael Theroux > Hello, > > We are currently running a web application utilizing Cassandra on EC2. > Given the recent outages experie

Expanding Cassandra on EC2 with consistency

2012-07-03 Thread Michael Theroux
Hello, We are currently running a web application utilizing Cassandra on EC2. Given the recent outages experienced with Amazon, we want to consider expanding Cassandra across availability zones sooner rather than later. We are trying to determine the optimal way to deploy Cassandra in this de