Millions of rows/items is no problem, megabytes per item is doable. Generally people have talked about chunking blobs and storing them across multiple columns.
See http://wiki.apache.org/cassandra/LargeDataSetConsiderations http://wiki.apache.org/cassandra/CassandraLimitations Hope that helps. Aaron On 27 Jan 2011, at 20:37, Narendra Sharma wrote: > Anyone using Cassandra for storing large number (millions) of large (mostly > immutable) objects (200KB-5MB size each)? I would like to understand the > experience in general considering that Cassandra is not considered a good fit > for large objects. https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-265 > > > Thanks, > Naren