Thanks for the link. I will keep that in mind. Yeah 256MB isn't much. Moving up to 3-4G for 10-15 boxes gets expensive.
Alejandro Pérez-Linaza wrote: > > 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. > > > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/HBase-in-a-real-world-application-tp24920888p24927386.html Sent from the HBase User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
