On 16 January 2015 at 02:24, Tim Dunphy <> wrote: > Hey all, > > I'm trying to learn how to use some of the big data stores. Specifically I > want to learn how to use CassandraDB and Hadoop. Originally I'd had the > idea of trying to setup a cassandra ring on the Amazon AWS free tier. > However it seems that neither will run on a t2.micro instance. Google Cloud are now offering $300 worth of compute in their cloud trial. If you manage to test everything you need under $300, you'd be ok :-) . http://cloud.google.com HTH ~f.