Nice! On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 9:06 PM, Edward Capriolo <edlinuxg...@gmail.com> wrote: > On the mailing list and IRC there are many questions about Cassandra > internals. I understand where the questions are coming from because it > took me a while to get a grip on it. > > However if you have a laptop with a descent amount of RAM 2 GB is > enough for 3-5 nodes, (4GB is better). You can kick up a multi-node > cluster right on your laptop. Then you can test failure/eventual > consistent scenarios such as (insert to node A, kill node B, join node > C) till your hearts content. > > http://www.edwardcapriolo.com/roller/edwardcapriolo/entry/lauching_5_node_cassandra_clusters >
-- Jonathan Ellis Project Chair, Apache Cassandra co-founder of DataStax, the source for professional Cassandra support http://www.datastax.com