Re: Cluster per Application vs. Multi-Application Clusters

2012-08-22 Thread Hiller, Dean
True, all in one cluster is very comparable to putting your application on amazon's cloud. When you have lots of apps, you can benefit from a batch job at night using resources that are not used by your day job apps. Always tradeoffs of course as if both apps go off at the same timeŠ.well, you get

Re: Cluster per Application vs. Multi-Application Clusters

2012-08-22 Thread Edward Capriolo
If you are staring out small one logical/physical cluster is probably the best and only approach. Long term this is very case by case dependent but I generally believe Cluster per Application is the best approach. Although I consider it "Cluster per QOS" For our use cases I find that two applicat

Re: Cluster per Application vs. Multi-Application Clusters

2012-08-22 Thread Hiller, Dean
Just an opinion here as we are having to do this ourselves loading tons of researchers datasets into one clusters. We are going the path of one keyspace as it makes it easier if you ever want to mine the data so you don't have to keep building different clients for another keyspace. We ended u