I also wrote a script to help dealing with firing up a Cassandra cluster on localhost. It is a bit more extensive in that it deals with how many node you want (though on a local host you won't probably be able to go too crazy) and allow to easily create/start/stop/remove a cluster (and a few more things).
I'm using it mainly for testing Cassandra code but it can probably be useful as well for proof-checking the way Cassandra works. For those interested, it's here: https://github.com/pcmanus/ccm -- Sylvain On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 4:26 PM, Jonathan Ellis <jbel...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 >
