[kcw39217]

Cassandra is an open source distributed database management system designed to handle large amounts of data across many commodity servers, providing high availability with no single point of failure.......

There is nothing commodity about a server with 128GB RAM.

When you introduce other nodes, you get chatter and network traffic....

[sciurus]

Nothing commodity about a server with 128GB RAM? At list price, you can configure one of dell's entry-level servers with 128GB of RAM for less than $3,500.

http://www.dell.com/us/business/p/poweredge-rack-servers

[mbfg]

Dell's servers you point to do not have 48 logical cores, either. That cpu runs $2.2K by itself.

[bpicolo]

> There is nothing commodity about a server with 128GB RAM.

Except I can launch higher than that on EC2, so that's not fact.