Comparing Cassandra Write Performance on Google Compute Engine and AWS

My buddy Adam put this together for Cassandra. It's always nice seeing somebody do this kind of work and share it publicly.

We do similar kind of benchmarking ourselves for our applications between cloud vendors and instance types (different families) and end up with large spread sheets. In our case we usually equate it to metric per dollar. Such as requests/dollar or GB processed/dollar.

32% performance increase with Oracle JDK 8 over OpenJDK 7. I pity projects tied to this modern day Cobol that have to deal with this crap. Write once, run anywhere (badly, unless Oracle likes your platform enough).