cassandra is designed to do less random i/o than b-tree based systems like tokyo cabinet. ssds are not as useful for most workloads.
On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 8:37 AM, Héctor Izquierdo <izquie...@strands.com> wrote: > Hi everyone. > > I wanted to know if anybody has had any experience with cassandra on flash > storage. At work we have a cluster of 6 machines running Tokyotyrant on > flash-io drives (320GB) each, but performance is not what we expected, and > we'are having some issues with replication and availability. It's also hard > to manage, and adding/removing nodes is pure hell. > > We can't afford test hardware with flash storage right now, so could > somebody share his experience? > > Thank you very much > > Héctor Izquierdo > -- Jonathan Ellis Project Chair, Apache Cassandra co-founder of Riptano, the source for professional Cassandra support http://riptano.com
