On that scale, why not use MySQL or Postgres? "HBase in a box" is like "dynamic equilibrium", or "virtual reality", or "jumbo shrimp"... :-)
- Andy ----- Original Message ---- > From: Otis Gospodnetic <otis_gospodne...@yahoo.com> > To: hbase-user@hadoop.apache.org > Sent: Fri, January 15, 2010 12:54:42 PM > Subject: HBase on 1 box? how big? > > Hello, > > I understand running HBase on a single box is kind of > pointless (thanks Andrew Purtell for the reply about numbers of > boxes)... but I was wondering what kind of box might one need to > host/run various HBase/Hadoop processes? > > Imagine I just need to have "HBase in a box", so to speak. :) > > I understand it depends on the volume on data, DB structure, request rates... > I don't have those numbers, but say I want HBase to have 100M rows with > data from Apache logs and want to run the common web analytics/stats > reports on a nightly basis. > > * Would an EC2 Large Instance suffice? > -- Large Instance 7.5 GB of memory, 4 EC2 Compute Units (2 virtual cores > with 2 EC2 Compute Units each), 850 GB of local instance storage, 64-bit > platform > > * How about EC2 Small Instance? > -- Small Instance (Default) 1.7 GB of memory, 1 EC2 Compute Unit (1 virtual > core > with 1 EC2 Compute Unit), 160 GB of local instance storage, 32-bit platform > > Thanks, > Otis > P.S. > hw specs from http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/#instance
