Physical machines unless you're running your cluster in the cloud (AWS/etc).
Reason is simple: Look how Cassandra scales and provides redundancy. Aaron Turner http://synfin.net/ Twitter: @synfinatic https://github.com/synfinatic/tcpreplay - Pcap editing and replay tools for Unix & Windows Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. -- Benjamin Franklin On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 4:21 PM, Shahab Yunus <shahab.yu...@gmail.com>wrote: > Hello, > > We are deciding whether to get VMs or physical machines for a Cassandra > cluster. I know this is a very high-level question depending on lots of > factors and in fact I want to know that how to tackle this is and what > factors should we take into consideration while trying to find the answer. > > Data size? Writing speed (whether write heavy usecases or not)? Random ead > use-cases? column family design/how we store data? > > Any pointers, documents, guidance, advise would be appreciated. > > Thanks a lot. > > Regards, > Shahab >
