I might be misinterpreting you, but it seems you are only using one seed per node. Is there a specific reason for that? A node can have multiple seeds in its seed list. It is my understanding that typically, every node in a cluster has the same seed list.
On Sun, Jan 11, 2015 at 10:03 PM, Tim Dunphy <bluethu...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hey all, > > I've been experimenting with Cassandra on a small scale and in my own > sandbox for a while now. I'm pretty used to working with it to get small > clusters up and running and gossiping with each other. > > But I just had a new project at work drop into my lap that requires a > NoSQL data store. And the developers have selected... you guessed it! > Cassasndra as their back end database. > > So I'll be asked to setup a 6 node cluster all hosted in one data center. > I want to just make sure that I understand the concept of seeds correctly. > I think since we'll be dealing with 6 nodes, what I'll want to do is have 2 > seeds. And have each seed seeing each other as it's own seed. > > Then the other 2 nodes in each sub-group will have the IP for it's seed on > each of it's cassandra.yml files. > > Then I'll want to set the replication factor to 5. Since it'll be the > total number of nodes -1. I just want to make sure I have all that right. > > Another thing that will have to happen is that I will need to connect > Cassandra into a 4 node ElasticSearch cluster. I think there are a few > options for doing that. I've seen names like Titan and Gremlin. And I was > wondering if anyone has any recommendations there. > > And lastly I'd like to point out that I know literally nothing about the > data that will be stored there just as of yet. The first meeting about the > project will be tomorrow. My manager gave me an advanced heads up about > what will be required. > > Thank you, > Tim > > -- > GPG me!! > > gpg --keyserver pool.sks-keyservers.net --recv-keys F186197B > >
