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From: Paul Smith <psmith@aconex.com>
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Subject: Smallest production HBase cluster
Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2010 08:56:06 +1000
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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who have even just a 3 node cluster, perhaps that's out of date, but =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=