Thanks Otis and everyone for their posts, has been a most useful read. I feel hungry now thinking about shrimp, putting aside the oxymoron.
On 24/07/2010, at 3:39 AM, Otis Gospodnetic wrote: > 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 have even just a 3 node cluster, perhaps that's out of date, but curious to 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
