It's important to note that this answer differs quite significantly
depending on whether you're talking about Cassandra < 3.0 or >= 3.0
DataStax has a good article on < 3.0:
http://docs.datastax.com/en/cassandra/2.0/cassandra/architecture/architecturePlanningUserData_t.html
The Last Pickle has a g
You can find the information about that in Cassandra source code, for
example. Search for serializers, like BytesSerializer:
https://github.com/apache/cassandra/blob/trunk/src/java/org/apache/cassandra/serializers/BytesSerializer.java
to
get an idea how the data is serialized.
But I'd also check o
