Cassandra on heterogeneous servers
- by happy-coding
I am currently running 4 cassandra nodes with the following hardware in a Apache Cassandra cluster:
AMD Athlon 64 X2 6000+
8G RAM
750G hard disk
It shows not such a good writing performance and a really bad read
performance with sometimes also timeouts. I was wondering if it makes
sense to add 2 nodes with a different hardware (8 CPUs and more RAM)
to improve this. Or does a cassandra cluster works best with the same
hardware in every node?
Thanks & best regards