Since it's all pay-for-use, you could build your system on both, then do whatever stress testing you want.
The cassandra part of your app should be unchanged between different cloud providers. Personally, I'm using EC2 and don't have any complaints. Dave Viner On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 3:49 PM, Ryan King <r...@twitter.com> wrote: > 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 >
