Re: store large String as col value

2012-06-20 Thread Fei Shan
why not just store the URL of pic / video, just like the RDBMS did, cassandra is merely a distributed database from some kind point of view. it is more like a schema design issue. Any video or pic should not be put into the DB especially big data table DB as raw binary format. and did this kind of

Re: store large String as col value

2012-06-20 Thread Paolo Bernardi
Take also into account Thrift's limits. http://wiki.apache.org/cassandra/CassandraLimitations Paolo On Jun 20, 2012 10:11 PM, "Dave Brosius" wrote: > > Column values are limited at 2G. > > Why store them as Base64? that just adds overhead. Storing the raw bytes > will save you a bunch. > > > *-

Re: store large String as col value

2012-06-20 Thread Dave Brosius
Column values are limited at 2G.Why store them as Base64? that just adds overhead. Storing the raw bytes will save you a bunch. - Original Message -From: "Cyril Auburtin" >;cyril.aubur...@gmail.com