Paul, Threads on this topic from the past:
http://search-hadoop.com/m/tUsEQnb7Hn/hbase+in+a+box (last msg has example of 1 box setup) http://search-hadoop.com/m/c1ihA1PnAfQ/hbase+in+a+box Look for the bonus jumbo shrimp analogy :) Otis ---- Sematext :: http://sematext.com/ :: Solr - Lucene - Nutch Lucene ecosystem search :: http://search-lucene.com/ ----- Original Message ---- > From: Paul Smith <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Sent: Thu, July 22, 2010 6:56:06 PM > Subject: Smallest production HBase cluster > > anyone able to share their experience, thoughts on the 'smallest' production >HBase cluster in operation? Thinking there may be some point in the # >Nodes >scale where one transitions from/to "that's silly" to "that's actually more >like it". > > Anyone out there with a small HBase cluster in operation with < 10 nodes > able >to share any information? > > I notice on http://wiki.apache.org/hadoop/Hbase/PoweredBy there are some who >have even just a 3 node cluster, perhaps that's out of date, but curious to >know from the community on where people think 'the line' needs to be drawn on >usage of Hbase. > > To take things to an extreme, is there anyone actually running a _single_ >HBase node... ? (one would hope that machine is actually designed to be a bit >more HA than normal) just to take advantage of a column-oriented store? > > thanks, > > Paul
