On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 3:04 PM, Cassy Andra <cassandral...@gmail.com> wrote: > My company is looking to develop a software prototype based off Cassandra in > the cloud. We except to run 5 - 10 NoSQL servers for the prototype. I've > read online (Jonathan Ellis was pretty vocal about this) that EC2 has some > I/O issues. Is the general consensus to run Cassandra on EC2 or Rackspace? > What are the pros + cons?
I don't know about RAX cloud, but Joe Stump of SimpleGeo did some benchmarks of ec2 io performance: http://stu.mp/2009/12/disk-io-and-throughput-benchmarks-on-amazons-ec2.html -ryan
