Cassandra stores byte arrays. You can certainly store file data in it, although if it is larger than a few MB you should chunk it into multiple columns.
On Sun, Apr 25, 2010 at 8:21 PM, Shuge Lee <shuge....@gmail.com> wrote: > Yes. > > Cassandra does save raw string data only, not a file, and shouldn't save a > file. > > 2010/4/26 刘兵兵 <rucb...@gmail.com> >> >> sorry i'm not very familiar with python, are you meaning that the files >> are stored in the file system of the os? >> >> then , the cassandra just stores the path to access the files? >> >> >> On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 8:57 AM, Shuge Lee <shuge....@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> In Python: >>> >>> keyspace.columnfamily[key][column] = value >>> >>> files.video[uuid.uuid4()]['name'] = 'foo.flv' >>> files.video[uuid.uuid4()]['path'] = '/var/files/foo.flv' >>> >>> create a mapping >>> files.video = { >>> uuid.uuid4() : { >>> 'name' : 'foo.flv', >>> 'path' : '/var/files/foo.flv', >>> } >>> } >>> >>> if most of sizes >= 0.5MB, use sys-fs/reiser4progs, else use ext4. >>> >>> >>> 2010/4/26 Bingbing Liu <rucb...@gmail.com> >>>> >>>> any suggestion? >>>> >>>> 2010-04-26 >>>> ________________________________ >>>> Bingbing Liu >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Shuge Lee | Lee Li | 李蠡 >> >> >> >> -- >> Bingbing Liu >> >> Web and Mobile Data Management lab >> >> Renmin University of China > > > > -- > Shuge Lee | Lee Li | 李蠡 >