On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 12:49 PM, Drew Kutcharian <d...@venarc.com> wrote: > Hey Guys, > > What should I look out for when deploying a single node installation? We want > to launch a product that uses Cassandra and since we are going to have very > little load initially, we were thinking of just going live with one node and > eventually add more nodes as the load (hopefully) grows. Is this practice > recommended? >
I'm far from an expert and single node should be fine for development, but for your production site, I'd suggest going with a minimal 'real' cluster (2-3 nodes). in my limited experience with hadoop, single node is significantly different from multinode, and I wouldn't want to start from a position where config is certain to have to fundamentally change as opposed to just grow. But that's just my first guess, you could try a dev move from a single node to a dual node to find out how difficult it might be. -- Even the Magic 8 ball has an opinion on email clients: Outlook not so good.
