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Mastering Apache Cassandra 3.x - Third Edition
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Mastering Apache Cassandra 3.x - Third Edition

by Aaron Ploetz, Tejaswi Malepati
October 2018
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
348 pages
10h
English
Packt Publishing
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Disk

This is the one resource that probably has the most room for variance. Several factors can help to determine the optimal disk size:

  • Anticipated size of a single copy of the dataset
  • Replication Factor (RF)
  • Operational throughput requirements
  • Cost of cloud volumes (usually per hour)
  • Compaction strategy used on the larger tables
  • Whether the size of the dataset will be static, or grow over time
  • Whether the application team has an archival strategy
I have built production Cassandra instances on as much as 1 TB, and as little as 40 GB. Typically, nodes with larger amounts of data also need to have more compute resource available to them.

Let's walk through a little exercise here.

Assume that we need to build a cluster for an application ...

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