1.2.2 as primary storage?

2013-02-25 Thread Chris Dean
I've been away from Cassandra for a while and wondered what the consensus is on using 1.2.2 as a primary data store? Our app has a typical OLTP workload but we have high availability requirements. The data set is just under 1TB and I don't see us growing to more that a small Cassandra cluster.

Re: 1.2.2 as primary storage?

2013-02-25 Thread Michael Kjellman
How big will each mutation be roughly? 1MB, 5MB, 16MB? On 2/25/13 3:32 PM, Chris Dean ctd...@sokitomi.com wrote: I've been away from Cassandra for a while and wondered what the consensus is on using 1.2.2 as a primary data store? Our app has a typical OLTP workload but we have high availability

Re: 1.2.2 as primary storage?

2013-02-25 Thread Chris Dean
Michael Kjellman mkjell...@barracuda.com writes: How big will each mutation be roughly? 1MB, 5MB, 16MB? On the small end. Say 1MB. Cheers, Chris Dean

Re: 1.2.2 as primary storage?

2013-02-25 Thread Michael Kjellman
I do this, and have done with with C*, since 0.86 Pitfalls: 1) Large mutations are a pain, which is why it's not really a recommended use case for C*, I limit mine to 5MB 2) Repairs can get ugly and replication can get ugly due to the fact that your hints will grow very quickly if you have an