HI Asit, The only help I'm going to give is on point 3), as I have little experience with 2) and 1) depends on a lot of factors. For testing the workload use this: http://www.datastax.com/documentation/cassandra/2.1/cassandra/tools/toolsCStress_t.html It probably covers all your testing needs.
Regards, Carlos Juzarte Rolo Cassandra Consultant Pythian - Love your data rolo@pythian | Twitter: cjrolo | Linkedin: *linkedin.com/in/carlosjuzarterolo <http://linkedin.com/in/carlosjuzarterolo>* Tel: 1649 www.pythian.com On Sat, Jan 31, 2015 at 2:49 AM, Asit KAUSHIK <asitkaushikno...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all, > We are testing our logging application on 3 node cluster each system is > virtual machine with 4 cores and 8GB RAM with RedHat enterprise. Now my > question is in 3 parts > 1) Am I using the right hardware as of now I am testing say 100000 record > reads. > 2) I am using Stargate-core for full text search is there any slowness > observed because of that as ??? > 2) How can I simulate the write load I created an application which > creates say 20 threads and each tread I insert 1000 records and on each > thread I open cluster connection session connection execute 1000 records > and close the connection. This takes a lot of time please suggest if I > missing something > -- --