Well, you can make Cassandra work on a single box (or multiple instances on a single box if need be). My experimental/dev cluster that my team plays with to try things out is 6 nodes running on 6 rather small cloud VM's and it works fine. So I'd say yes, it work in the merely big scale.
On Feb 10, 2011, at 10:00 AM, Benson Margulies wrote: > Hello there, > > I'm trying to sort out whether Cassandra is a good pick as the data > store for a problem I've got. > > The shape of the thing is a large number of hash tables. On a merely > pretty big scale, it can all run on one pretty big machine. On a > gigantic scale, which is an eventual goal, it will need to spread out > over multiple computers. > > My concern is, in essence, whether Cassandra will scale down to > 'merely big', or whether I need to code to something else for that > purpose and then be able to switch. Imagine, oh, 49 tables, each > storing a million hashes. > > Our current prototype is using redis.
