Someone has backended mongo's gridfs into Cassandra but I can not find it on Github atm
On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 6:51 PM, Rustam Aliyev <rus...@code.az> wrote: > Hi Maxim, > > If you need to store Blobs, then BlobStores such as OpenStack Object Store > (aka Swift) should be better choise. > > As far as I know, MogileFS (which is also a sort of BlobStore) has > scalability bottleneck - MySQL. > > There are few reasons why BlobStores are better choise. In the following > presentation, I summarised why we chose to store blobs for ElasticInbox on > BlobStores, not Cassandra: > http://www.elasticinbox.com/blog/slides-and-video-from-london-meetup/ > > Main downside of BlobStores in comparison to Cassandra is write speed. > Cassandra writes to memtabes, BlobStores to disk. > > - > Rustam. > > > On Wed Feb 22 22:19:26 2012, Maxim Potekhin wrote: >> >> Thank you so much, looks nice, I'll be looking into it. >> >> >> On 2/22/2012 3:08 PM, Rob Coli wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>> On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 10:37 AM, Maxim Potekhin <potek...@bnl.gov >>> <mailto:potek...@bnl.gov>> wrote: >>> >>> The idea was to provide redundancy, resilience, automatic load >>> balancing >>> and automatic repairs. Going the way of the file system does not >>> achieve any of that. >>> >>> >>> (Apologies for continuing slightly OT thread, but if people google and >>> find this thread, I'd like to to contain the below relevant suggestion.. :D) >>> >>> With the caveat that you would have to ensure that your client code >>> streams instead of buffering the entire object, you probably want something >>> like MogileFS : >>> >>> http://danga.com/mogilefs/ >>> >>> I have operated a sizable MogileFS cluster for Digg, and it was one of >>> the simplest, most comprehensible and least error prone parts of our >>> infrastructure. A++ would run again. >>> >>> -- >>> =Robert Coli >>> rc...@palominodb.com <mailto:rc...@palominodb.com> >> >> >
