On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 12:05 PM, Ran Tavory <ran...@gmail.com> wrote: > As we're designing our systems for a move from mysql to Cassandra we're > considering moving our file storage to Cassandra as well. Is this wise? > We're currently using mogilefs to store media items (images) of average size > of 30Mb (400k images, and growing). Cassandra looks like a performance > improvement over mogilefs (saves roundtrip, no sql in the middle) but I was > wondering whether the fact that cassandra stores byte arrays should > encourage us to store images in it. Is Cassandra a good fit? > Has anyone had any similar experience or can send guidelines? > To phrase the question in more general terms: What's cassandra's sweet spot > in terms of Value size per column or total row size?
Large objects aren't feasible without some work: http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-265. In general, if it's not suitable for a RDBMS, its probably not suitable for Cassandra. -ryan
