On Sun, Feb 17, 2013 at 2:10 AM, Tim Dunphy <bluethundr@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hey guys, > > Apologies in advance if this question is in poor taste. But I've really > fallen in love with learning about the cassanrdra database. The only > problem is that it doesn't run very well on an t1.micro instance at amazon > and the larger sizes are quite expensive. An m1.small can do the trick, > while still not optimal. So I was wonder if there was any real value in the > cloud or even VPS world where I could setup a small Cassandra ring and go > to town learning the ins and outs of how it operates. A quick look for Cassandra system requirements: <http://wiki.apache.org/cassandra/CassandraHardware> recommends a L instance on AWS. Alternately, you could do it with a bunch of guest VMs in LKVM. A desktop with a Phenom II (4 or 6 cores) or Intel i5 with 16 GB and a HDD to match your Cassandra db could be a starting point. You can manage the VMs with virt-manager. -- Arun Khan _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos