Ah, I see, that makes sense. Have you got a source for the storing of > hundreds of gigabytes? And does Cassandra not store anything in memory? > It stores bloom filters and index-samples in memory. But they are much smaller than the actual data and they can be configured.
> > Yeah, my dataset is small at the moment - perhaps I should have chosen > something larger for the work I'm doing (University dissertation), however, > it is far too late to change now! > On paper mysql-cluster looks great. But in daily use its not as nice as Cassandra (where you have machines dying, networks splitting, etc.). cheers, Christian
