Thanks for the reply. We have a high-write application and while individual writes aren't really that slow we have A LOT of them (we receive our writes off the

Thanks for the reply. We have a high-write application and while individual writes aren't really that slow we have A LOT of them (we receive our writes off the network from a 20+ hadoop-machine cluster so they can send quite a bit of junk our way). What's wrong with the complexity of scaling Cluster? From what I've experienced it's been pretty easy to add machines, take individual data nodes offline while cluster is running, etc..