@Mohit Bit confused with your reply. For what use cases you find Cassandra useful then?
-Vivek On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 11:41 PM, Mohit Anchlia <mohitanch...@gmail.com>wrote: > For large volume big data scenarios we don't recommend using Cassandra as > a blob storage simply because of intensive IO involved during compation, > repair etc. Cassandra store is only well suited for metadata type storage. > However, if you are fairly low volume then it's a different story, but if > you have low volume why use Cassandra :) > > > On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 10:55 AM, Brian O'Neill <b...@alumni.brown.edu>wrote: > >> You may want to look at: >> https://github.com/Netflix/astyanax/wiki/Chunked-Object-Store >> >> -brian >> >> --- >> >> Brian O'Neill >> >> Chief Technology Officer >> >> >> *Health Market Science* >> >> *The Science of Better Results* >> >> 2700 Horizon Drive * King of Prussia, PA * 19406 >> >> M: 215.588.6024 * @boneill42 <http://www.twitter.com/boneill42> * >> >> healthmarketscience.com >> >> >> This information transmitted in this email message is for the intended >> recipient only and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. If >> you received this email in error and are not the intended recipient, or the >> person responsible to deliver it to the intended recipient, please contact >> the sender at the email above and delete this email and any attachments and >> destroy any copies thereof. Any review, retransmission, dissemination, >> copying or other use of, or taking any action in reliance upon, this >> information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is >> strictly prohibited. >> >> >> >> >> From: prem yadav <ipremya...@gmail.com> >> Reply-To: <user@cassandra.apache.org> >> Date: Tuesday, March 18, 2014 at 1:41 PM >> To: <user@cassandra.apache.org> >> Subject: Cassandra blob storage >> >> Hi, >> I have been spending some time looking into whether large files(>100mb) >> can be stores in Cassandra. As per Cassandra faq: >> >> >> *"Currently Cassandra isn't optimized specifically for large file or BLOB >> storage. However, files of around 64Mb and smaller can be easily stored in >> the database without splitting them into smaller chunks. This is primarily >> due to the fact that Cassandra's public API is based on Thrift, which >> offers no streaming abilities; any value written or fetched has to fit in >> to memory." * >> >> Does the above statement still hold? Thrift supports framed data >> transport, does that change the above statement. If not, why does >> casssandra not adopt the Thrift framed data transfer support? >> >> Thanks >> >> >
