I would suggest you chunk them down into small pieces (~ 10-50MB) and just fetch all the parts you need. A problem might be that if fetching one fails, the whole blob is useless.
2012/2/22 Rafael Almeida <almeida...@yahoo.com> > Keep them where? > > ------------------------------ > *From:* Mohit Anchlia <mohitanch...@gmail.com> > *To:* user@cassandra.apache.org > *Cc:* potek...@bnl.gov > *Sent:* Wednesday, February 22, 2012 3:44 PM > *Subject:* Re: Please advise -- 750MB object possible? > > In my opinion if you are busy site or application keep blobs out of the > database. > > On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 9:37 AM, Dan Retzlaff <dretzl...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Chunking is a good idea, but you'll have to do it yourself. A few of the > columns in our application got quite large (maybe ~150MB) and the failure > mode was RPC timeout exceptions. Nodes couldn't always move that much data > across our data center interconnect in the default 10 seconds. With enough > heap and a faster network you could probably get by without chunking, but > it's not ideal. > > > On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 9:04 AM, Maxim Potekhin <potek...@bnl.gov> wrote: > > Hello everybody, > > I'm being asked whether we can serve an "object", which I assume is a > blob, of 750MB size? > I guess the real question is of how to chunk it and/or even it's possible > to chunk it. > > Thanks! > > Maxim > > > > > >
