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From: Jonathan Ellis <jbellis@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 8 Jun 2010 07:16:12 -0700
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Subject: Re: Cassandra on flash storage
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cassandra is designed to do less random i/o than b-tree based systems
like tokyo cabinet.  ssds are not as useful for most workloads.

On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 8:37 AM, H=E9ctor Izquierdo <izquierdo@strands.com> =
wrote:
> Hi everyone.
>
> I wanted to know if anybody has had any experience with cassandra on flas=
h
> storage. At work we have a cluster of 6 machines running Tokyotyrant on
> flash-io drives (320GB) each, but performance is not what we expected, an=
d
> we'are having some issues with replication and availability. It's also ha=
rd
> to manage, and adding/removing nodes is pure hell.
>
> We can't afford test hardware with flash storage right now, so could
> somebody share his experience?
>
> Thank you very much
>
> H=E9ctor Izquierdo
>


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Jonathan Ellis
Project Chair, Apache Cassandra
co-founder of Riptano, the source for professional Cassandra support
http://riptano.com