Howdy I'm looking at the possibility of using cassandra as an object store to offload image/blob data from an Oracle database. I've seen mentions of it being used as an object store in a large scale fashion, like with Walmart:
https://medium.com/walmartlabs/building-object-store-storing-images-in-cassandra-walmart-scale-a6b9c02af593 However I have found little on small scale setups and if it's even worth using Cassandra in place of something else that's meant to be used for object storage, like Ceph. Additionally, I've read that cassandra struggles with storing objects 10MB or larger and it's recommended to break objects up into smaller chunks, which either requires some kind of middleware between our application and cassandra, or it would require our application to split objects into smaller chunks and recombine them as needed. I've looked into pithos and astyanax, but those are both no longer developed and I'm not seeing anything that might replace them in the long term. https://github.com/exoscale/pithos https://github.com/Netflix/astyanax Any helpful information or advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance. -Gene
