You might want to check out www.rackspacecloud.com where you can get boxes and pay by the hour (as cheap as $0.015 / hour for a 256Mb box). We used it a couple of weeks ago to setup a MySQL Cluster test and ended up having around 18 boxes. Memory can be changed from 256Mb to 16Gb in a couple of minutes. They also have various flavors to choose from.
The bottom line is that we love it and it solves the problem of the "test boxes" that you would need right away. Have fun, Alex Alejandro Pérez-Linaza CEO Vertical Technologies, LLC [email protected] www.vertical-tech.com 9600 NW 25th Street, Suite 4A Miami, FL 33172 Office: (786) 206-0554 x 108 Toll Free: (866) 382-8918 Fax: (305) 328-5063 The information in this email is confidential and may be legally privileged. It is intended solely for the addressee. Access to this email by anyone else is unauthorized. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution or any action taken or omitted to be taken in reliance on it, is prohibited and may be unlawful. -----Original Message----- From: llpind [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, August 11, 2009 12:21 PM To: [email protected] Subject: HBase in a real world application As some of you know, I've been playing with HBase on/off for the past few months. I'd like your take on some cluster setup/configuration setting that you’ve found successful. Also, any other thoughts on how I can persuade usage of HBase. Assume: Working with ~2 TB of data. A few very tall tables. Hadoop/HBase 0.20.0. 1. What specs should a master box have (speed, HD, RAM)? Should Slave boxes be different? 2. Recommended size of cluster? I realize this depends on what load/performance requirements we have, but I’d like to know your thoughts based on #1 specs. 3. Should zookeeper quorums run on different boxes than regionservers? Basically if you could give some example cluster configurations with the amount of data your working with that would be a lot of help (or point me to a place were this has been discussed for .20). Currently I don’t have the funds to play around with a lot of boxes, but I hope to soon. :) Thanks. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/HBase-in-a-real-world-application-tp24920888p24920888.html Sent from the HBase User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
