On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 6:47 PM, Kanwar Sangha <kan...@mavenir.com> wrote: > Hi – I am looking for some inputs on the file storage in Cassandra. Each > file size can range from 200kb – 3MB. I don’t see any limitation on the > column size. But would it be a good idea to store these files as binary in > the columns ?
We do the same, keeps a lot of small files (up to 15Mb). Limitation came from the Thrift side - it's bindings requires to load whole file in memory, but affordable in our case. -- Sergey