Thanks for your reply Jonathan. We chose Cassandra for its incredible performance and robustness for large sites. Our application is designed from the ground up to take full advantage of its column oriented data store (giving up the ability to also run with a relational database backend).
The challenge now is a new market consisting of many small sites that reportedly can't afford a multi-server solution. These would be permanent, one node systems. --John ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Jonathan Haddad <j...@jonhaddad.com> Date: Fri, Jan 22, 2016 at 3:34 PM Subject: Re: Production with Single Node To: user@cassandra.apache.org My opinion: http://rustyrazorblade.com/2013/09/cassandra-faq-can-i-start-with-a-single-node/ TL;DR: the only reason to run 1 node in prod is if you're super broke but know you'll need to scale up almost immediately after going to prod (maybe after getting some funding). If you're planning on doing it as a more permanent solution, you've chosen the wrong database.
