Pls explain why and how.
On Mon, Jul 8, 2013 at 5:44 PM, Sylvain Lebresne <sylv...@datastax.com>wrote: > If you do have blobs, the preferred way is to not encode them in strings > at all, but rather to use prepared statement (which don't involve a > conversion to string). > > -- > Sylvain > > > On Mon, Jul 8, 2013 at 11:07 AM, Pavel Kirienko < > pavel.kirienko.l...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> I am curious why there is BLOB datatype that accepts HEX strings only. >> >> HEX encoding requires twice as much space as original data, thus it is >> rather ineffective. Instead, base64 encoding with ASCII datatype seems more >> effective in terms of space, and I believe it doesn't impose noticeable >> performance penalty either. >> >> So, are there any special use cases for BLOBs, or should I give up on >> them and use ASCII + base64 for my binaries? >> >> Thanks in advance, >> Pavel. >> >> >
