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On 3/16/15 9:20 PM, "Anuj Wadehra" <anujw_2...@yahoo.co.in> wrote:

>Hi,
>
>We are trying to Decouple our Reporting DB from OLTP. Need urgent help on
>the feasibility of proposed solution for PRODUCTION.
>
>Use Case: Currently, our OLTP and Reporting application and DB are same.
>Some CF are used for both OLTP and Reporting while others are solely used
>for Reporting.Every business transaction synchronously updates the main
>OLTP CF and asynchronously updates other Reporting CFs.
>
>Problem Statement:
>1. Decouple Reporting and OLTP such that Reporting load can&#39;t impact
>OLTP performance.
>2. Scaling of Reporting  and OLTP modules must be independent
>3. OLTP client should not update all Reporting CFs. We generate Data
>Records on File sytem/shared disk.Reporting should use these Records to
>create Reporting DB.
>4. Small customers may do OLTP and Reporting on same 3-node cluster.
>Bigger customers can be given an option to have dedicated OLTP and
>Reporting nodes. So, standard Hardware box should be usable for 3
>deployments (OLTP,Reporting or OLTP+Reporting)
>
>Note: Reporting is ad-hoc, may involve full table scans and does not
>involve Analytics. Data size is huge 2TB (OLTP+Reporting) per node.
>
>Hardware : Standard deployment -3 node cluster with each node having 24
>cores, 64GB RAM, 400GB * 6 SSDs in RAID5
>
>Proposed Solution:
>1. Split OLTP and Reporting clients into two application components.
>2. For small deployments where more than 3 nodes are not required:
>    A. Install 2 Cassandra instances on each node one for OLTP and other
>for Reporting
>    B. To distribute I/O load in 2:1 --Remove RAID5 (as Cassandra offers
>replication) and assign 4 disks as JBod for OLTP and 2 disks for Reporting
>    C. RAM is abundant and often under-utilized , so assign 8GB each for
>2 Cassandra instance
>    D. To make sure that Reporting is not able to overload CPU, tune
>concurrent_reads,concurrent_writes
> OLTP client will only write to OLTP DB and generate DB record. Reporting
>client will poll FS and populate Reporting DB in required format.
>3. Larger customers can have Reporting clients and DB on dedicated
>physical nodes with all resources.
>
>Key Questions:
>Is it ok to run 2 Cassandra instances on one node in Production system
>and limit CPU Usage,Disk I/O and RAM as suggested above?
>Any other solution for above mentioned problem statement?
>
>
>
>Thanks
>Anuj


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