Andy is quite right, and a 10 node (large instance) cluster costs $100 a day + traffic. Fine for a couple days testing but for a month, I can't pay this as it is currently personal research.
For those of us testing and researching HBase - can anyone suggest a better hosted alternative for running small clusters (say 200-400G when in tab file format?) than EC2? What do people use for their personal dev environments? - please forgive this stupid question but should I invest in a 5 mini macs (3G memory and 250G HD) for example? If research proves successful, then would look at moving into production of course on proper hardware. Cheers, Tim On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 1:25 AM, Andrew Purtell <[email protected]> wrote: >> From: stack >> If someone can confirm that Michael Gottesmans's AMI >> works, lets post its location prominently on the >> hbase wiki someplace. > > It's 0.2. Wouldn't recommend it. > > AMIs need updating, unless they're a base system that contain > scripts that grab and install the latest and greatest from a > stable URL. Maybe Maven or Ivy + Ant could help with that. > Even still, OS vendor package updates, etc... > > Incidentally I did an estimate once of what it would cost me > to tinker with HBase on EC2. Came to ~$30K USD/month. That's > not spare change. > > - Andy > > > > >
