It is practically a seek and large streaming read. I do not believe this would be an issue. I have never run such a workload but a simple experiment should clear the air.
Cheers Avinash On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 7:42 PM, Carlos Sanchez < carlos.sanc...@riskmetrics.com> wrote: > We could have blob as large as 50mb compressed (XML compresses quite well). > Typical documents we would deal with would be between 500K and 3MB > > Carlos > > > ________________________________________ > From: Avinash Lakshman [avinash.laksh...@gmail.com] > Sent: Wednesday, March 17, 2010 8:49 PM > To: user@cassandra.apache.org > Subject: Re: Storing large blobs > > My question would be how large is large? Perhaps you could compress the > blobs and then store them. But it depends on the answer to the first > question. > > Cheers > Avinash > > On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 5:10 PM, Carlos Sanchez < > carlos.sanc...@riskmetrics.com<mailto:carlos.sanc...@riskmetrics.com>> > wrote: > Has anyone had experience storing large blobs in Cassandra? Is really > Cassandra tailored for large content? > > Carlos > > This email message and any attachments are for the sole use of the intended > recipients and may contain proprietary and/or confidential information which > may be privileged or otherwise protected from disclosure. Any unauthorized > review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited. If you are not an > intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply email and destroy the > original message and any copies of the message as well as any attachments to > the original message. > > > This email message and any attachments are for the sole use of the intended > recipients and may contain proprietary and/or confidential information which > may be privileged or otherwise protected from disclosure. Any unauthorized > review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited. If you are not an > intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply email and destroy the > original message and any copies of the message as well as any attachments to > the original message. >