Todd, I think a comparison of the performance between MapR and HDFS on 10-20 nodes would be good enough unless you have more nodes available. If you could test on real hardware that would be ideal IMO, but EC2 would be fine. I look forward to hearing your results.
Thanks, --Jason On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 2:45 PM, Eric Newton <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 1:08 PM, Todd Stavish <[email protected]>wrote: > >> 1. How many nodes should I run to have it be a meaningful test? >> > > We test on 1, 10, and ~100 node clusters. > > >> 2. RC5 seems to have some memory allocation \ config issues. Wait for RC6? >> > > RC6 is now available. > > >> 3. Is /test/system/continuous sufficient to test? >> > > Yes. It will collect performance numbers for you over time, too. > > >> The MapR guys have offered to allow me to test on real hardware. So we >> could have an EC2 comparison against real servers as well. Also, Mapr >> has a Whirr setup. Trying to figure out if I should create one for >> accumulo too? > > > That would be great! > > -Eric >
