But I think use SSD can boost read performance, this is the main problem now for us to use Cassandra.
On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 10:16 PM, Jonathan Ellis <jbel...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 >
