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Re:Open-sourcing a 10x reduction in Apache Cassandra tail la... by rbranson on Monday March 05, 2018 @02:18PM (#16523566)
The licensing cost of Zing generally makes this a bad trade-off. It's much cheaper to purchase more hardware. Zing is targeted at vertically scaling very large JVM heaps, where it's valuable to have massive amounts of data on a single, big machine.
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Re:Open-sourcing a 10x reduction in Apache Cassandra tail la... by nitsanw on Tuesday March 06, 2018 @02:00AM (#16527349)
As an ex-Azul employee I can say there's a good number of Azul clients using a Zing+Cassandra setup, so the price point is right for some people at the very least. Zing licence cost has also changed in recent years (3.5k per server last I looked, and that is before you haggle some bulk deal) so not sure if your impression is calibrated to that new price point.
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