I took the advice from previous threads and use cassandra to hold pointers to the files that are uploaded and other meta information. Amazon S3 can be quite simple and pain free at times and was a great cost-effective place for me to keep the large files... i have had some great success already with this approach and read/serve the data from the large files only when they are required
-sd On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 8:44 PM, Edward Capriolo <edlinuxg...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 1:43 PM, mcasandra <mohitanch...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Is it advisable or ok to store photos, images and docs in cassandra where you >> expect high volume of uploads and views? >> >> I was reading about facebook implementation of haystack to store the photos. >> They don't put anything in their mysql db. >> >> Since Cassandra is different from mysql I was wondering if it's ok or if >> there are going to be any issues. >> >> I tried searching online to read articles or papers on similar subject but >> couldn't find any where cassandra was being used to store docs/images etc.
