Also, if you're running it on azure you should have a look at Netflix Priam. That really helped us automate stuff.
Dynamo db works well if you don't want to spend hours in running your cluster. If I were to have the option to run on AWS I would use Dynamo when possible. Sent from my iPhone > On 4 nov. 2016, at 10:10, Oskar Kjellin <oskar.kjel...@gmail.com> wrote: > > So I've run Cassandra on both Aws and azure. I would strongly suggest that if > you have the option, run as far away from azure as you can. > > Here's a list of issues I have running Cassandra on azure: > 1. No native snitch > 2. No concept of availability zones. This makes it impossible for Cassandra > to put replicas in different AZs. This will hurt your uptime and might incur > loss of data. (They have something called a fault domain tho) > 3. The disks have iops that land in the floppy disk range > 4. Even running SSDs will give you poor performance. > 5. Beware of the global storage account limit. This makes scaling out hurt > performance if you put them on the same storage account. Which if your using > images is your only choice. > > Sent from my iPhone > >> On 4 nov. 2016, at 00:22, cass savy <casss...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> I would like to hear from the community on their experiences or lesson >> learnt on hosting Cassandra in cloud platforms like >> >> 1. Google Cloud Platform >> 2. AWS >> 3. Azure >> >> 1. Which cloud hosting is better and Why? >> 2. What differences of C* over vendor provided NoSQL DB like (Bigtable, >> Dynamo,Azure Document DB) >> 3. AWS is more mature in his offerings and Azure is getting there or its >> there already based on what I have been investigating so far? >> >> 4. What is drive to pick one vs another -Is it cost, infrastructure, >> hardware SKU, availability, scalability, performance,ease of deployment and >> maintenance,..etc? >> >> Please let me know your thoughts and suggestions if somebody has done a deep >> dive into these 3 cloud platforms for C*. >> >> >> We use datastax cassandra and exploring new usecases in AWS and also >> evaluating or POC it in Azure/GCP >>
