On 06/22/2011 01:23 AM, Damien Picard wrote:
>store your images / documents / etc. somewhere and reference them >in Cassandra. That's the consensus that's been bandied about on this >list quite frequently
I store large files in Cassandra using columns for file blocks. I have a simple blob class over the top of this which handles input and output streaming so reads/writes are only one column at a time. I don't have time to post the details, but it's pretty simple - each blob has it's own key and it's blocks are the columns. Column names are essentially the block number.
I prefer this since there's no need to deal with yet another disk store and it's associated security, redundancy, and cost.
- Don
