Just out of curiosity :
When using compression, does this affect this one way or another? Is 300G (compressed) SSTable size, or total size of data? .vegard, ----- Original Message ----- From: user@cassandra.apache.org To: Cc: Sent:Mon, 18 Feb 2013 08:41:25 +1300 Subject:Re: cassandra vs. mongodb quick question If you have spinning disk and 1G networking and no virtual nodes, I would still say 300G to 500G is a soft limit. If you are using virtual nodes, SSD, JBOD disk configuration or faster networking you may go higher. The limiting factors are the time it take to repair, the time it takes to replace a node, the memory considerations for 100's of millions of rows. If you the performance of those operations is acceptable to you, then go crazy. Cheers ----------------- Aaron Morton Freelance Cassandra Developer New Zealand @aaronmorton http://www.thelastpickle.com [1] On 16/02/2013, at 9:05 AM, "Hiller, Dean" wrote: So I found out mongodb varies their node size from 1T to 42T per node depending on the profile. So if I was going to be writing a lot but rarely changing rows, could I also use cassandra with a per node size of +20T or is that not advisable? Thanks, Dean Links: ------ [1] http://www.thelastpickle.com [2] mailto:dean.hil...@nrel.gov