How viable RaspberryPis would be depends on what you're testing. I generally test configs in vagrant boxes on my workstation, for testing configs that works fine no need for more physical hardware. The downside is I'm limited to a single physical hard drive. I doubt you'll get killer io out of a pi so if you really want to abuse a clustered database it's probably not a great approach, more likely your best best is a cheap cloud service for on demand usage (AWS and competitors). The other side of this is NoSQL is really more a buzzword than a thing, different software has different requirements so what you need to run mongodb vs what you need to run cassandra is different. On Fri, Dec 13, 2013 at 3:25 PM, Trent Shipley wrote: > I know that you can get lots of skills on NoSQL databases using a single > Linux machine, but eventually you need to pick up skills on a horizontal > cluster running the NoSQL database(s) of your choice. I am thinking of > creating a personal lab. Would Raspberry Pi's be suitable. What are some > other suitable mini-computers? > > I hate calling these little guys minicomputers. Minicomputers run things > like AS400. They are the next step down from a mainframe. I think they > should be called centimeter computers since they are on a centimeter scale. > Millimeter computers would amount to a Raspberry Pi on a chip that was less > than say, 90mm square. > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss -- Paul Mooring Operations Engineer Chef --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss