Thanks a lot for the info guys! I really appreciate it 🙏 On Thu, Mar 6, 2025 at 9:05 PM Jon Haddad <j...@rustyrazorblade.com> wrote:
> There's several options for load testing. I'll admit that I'm massively > biased as I wrote one of them. > > * easy-cass-stress offers a variety of customizable workloads out of the > box and can stress many features without writing any code or learning new > config. I wrote this with the goal of getting started in under 15 > minutes. It pairs very well with my tooling to create lab environments, > which I've also open sourced and have used for years in my performance > evaluations. I've used this combination of tools extensively over the > years. Most recently, to provide all the performance analysis for > CASSANDRA-15452. > > https://github.com/rustyrazorblade/easy-cass-stress > https://github.com/rustyrazorblade/easy-cass-lab > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-15452 > > * nosqlbench is maintained by datastax, is very flexible, can test more > than just Cassandra, but requires a bit more setup. > > https://github.com/nosqlbench/nosqlbench > > * ndbench, from Netflix. To be honest, I know very little about it other > than what's in the README. > > https://github.com/Netflix/ndbench > > An older, but still relevant post going into more details. It mentions > tlp-stress, that was the original name of easy-cass-stress before I forked > it 2 years ago for my own usage: > https://thelastpickle.com/blog/2020/04/06/comparing-stress-tools.html > > Hope this helps. > Jon > > > On Thu, Mar 6, 2025 at 10:33 AM Raphael Mazelier <r...@futomaki.net> > wrote: > >> The standard cassandra-test tool done the job for me. >> >> -- >> Raphael Mazelier >> >> Sent from Proton Mail Android >> >> >> -------- Original Message -------- >> On 3/6/25 18:30, Shalom Sagges wrote: >> >> Thanks a lot for the info Raphael! >> >> Are there any recommended sysbench/cassandra tests I should look into? >> >> On Thu, Mar 6, 2025 at 12:02 PM Raphael Mazelier <r...@futomaki.net> >> wrote: >> >>> Cassandra is generally stable. Every version is OK so I would use the >>> latest. >>> Regarding Graviton we run most of our clusters on Graviton and we >>> haven't any problem. >>> That said after further analysis the ratio perf/price is not that good. >>> I really advice to use x7a (new AMD cpu). >>> >>> best, >>> >>> -- >>> Raph >>> On 06/03/2025 08:21, Shalom Sagges wrote: >>> >>> Hi Everyone! >>> >>> My team is evaluating new database solutions and Cassandra is one of the >>> options we are considering >>> >>> I would appreciate your guidance on a couple of points: >>> >>> - *Stable Version Recommendation:* Which Cassandra version is >>> currently considered the most stable and production-ready for a POC? >>> - *Graviton Compatibility:* Has anyone deployed Cassandra on AWS EC2 >>> Graviton instances? Are there known compatibility issues or best >>> practices for running Cassandra on these ARM-based instances? >>> >>> >>> Thanks! 🙏 >>> >>>
