Re: Cassandra blob storage

On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 10:41 AM, prem yadav wrote: > I have been spending some time looking into whether large files(>100mb) > can be stores in Cassandra. As per Cassandra faq: > https://code.google.com/p/mogilefs/ Cassandra is not optimized for single values of this size. Leaving aside Thrift

Re: Cassandra blob storage

On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 10:41 AM, prem yadav wrote: > I have been spending some time looking into whether large files(>100mb) > can be stores in Cassandra. As per Cassandra faq: > https://code.google.com/p/mogilefs/ Cassandra is not optimized for single values of this size. Leaving aside Thrift

Re: Cassandra blob storage

@Mohit Bit confused with your reply. For what use cases you find Cassandra useful then? -Vivek On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 11:41 PM, Mohit Anchlia wrote: > For large volume big data scenarios we don't recommend using Cassandra as > a blob storage simply because of intensive IO involved during compa

Re: Cassandra blob storage

For large volume big data scenarios we don't recommend using Cassandra as a blob storage simply because of intensive IO involved during compation, repair etc. Cassandra store is only well suited for metadata type storage. However, if you are fairly low volume then it's a different story, but if you

Re: Cassandra blob storage

Thanks Brian, I have seen that. Its more of a workaround and a hack. Of course a great solution. But my question is more about why Cassandra itself can't support that. Give then Thrift supports frames. Thanks. On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 5:55 PM, Brian O'Neill wrote: > You may want to look at: > ht

Re: Cassandra blob storage

You may want to look at: https://github.com/Netflix/astyanax/wiki/Chunked-Object-Store -brian --- Brian O'Neill Chief Technology Officer Health Market Science The Science of Better Results 2700 Horizon Drive € King of Prussia, PA € 19406 M: 215.588.6024 € @boneill42