> >Doug, sorry for off-topic, it was extremely hot day; and I finally found >that it is cheaper to get single dedicated cc1.4xlarge (EC2) for >$1.60/hour than to rely on advocated (Whirr and Friends) c1.xlarge >($1.68/hour); unbelievable (hot!) 10 minutes for garbage collection of 1 >Gb heap only, 1000 (small!!!) transactions PER MINUTE only. It can be >explained by "virtual" sharing of the same cc1.4xlarge with at least two >of other users (3 x $1.68 = $2.04) . Especially "swap", "cache" is used >instead of file, and (of course) it is slower. No any problem with Hadoop thoughÂ
BTW, I need to compare with Cassandra, another Big Table clone. (P.S. I used dedicated servers before, and never had problems with Hbase; except EC2) -Fuad
