Re: Riak as Binary File Store

2012-05-31 Thread Praveen Baratam
Thank you everybody for the feedback. I am planning to write binary data to Riak from the application server which handles upload. On the read side I am planning to use Apache with mod_proxy and mod_rewrite to directly fetch from Riak and serve the files without any other application server / scri

Re: Riak as Binary File Store

2012-05-29 Thread Mark Phillips
On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 12:51 PM, Vlad Gorodetsky wrote: > I've read somewhere here on the mailing list that storing blobs that > are more than 50KB isn't recommended. > Is that correct? If so, is it something specific to storage backend? > > Riak can probably handle objects up to about 10MBs. Th

Re: Riak as Binary File Store

2012-05-29 Thread Vlad Gorodetsky
I've read somewhere here on the mailing list that storing blobs that are more than 50KB isn't recommended. Is that correct? If so, is it something specific to storage backend? ~Vlad On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 3:51 PM, Alvaro Videla wrote: > Like this perhaps: https://github.com/johnthethird/riak-fu

Re: Riak as Binary File Store

2012-05-29 Thread Alvaro Videla
Like this perhaps: https://github.com/johnthethird/riak-fuse *cough* *cough* On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 2:49 PM, Shuhao Wu wrote: > It'll be interesting if you can write a filesystem on top of Riak. > > That would be a cool project to see on github :P > > Shuhao > > > On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 8:36 A

Re: Riak as Binary File Store

2012-05-29 Thread Shuhao Wu
It'll be interesting if you can write a filesystem on top of Riak. That would be a cool project to see on github :P Shuhao On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 8:36 AM, Praveen Baratam wrote: > Hello Everybody! > > I have read abundantly over the web that Riak is very well suited to store > and retrieve sm

Re: Riak as Binary File Store

2012-05-29 Thread Justin Sheehy
Hi, Praveen. Nothing about what you have said would cause a problem for Riak. Go for it! Justin On May 29, 2012, at 8:36 AM, Praveen Baratam wrote: > Hello Everybody! > > I have read abundantly over the web that Riak is very well suited to store > and retrieve small binary objects such as

Riak as Binary File Store

2012-05-29 Thread Praveen Baratam
Hello Everybody! I have read abundantly over the web that Riak is very well suited to store and retrieve small binary objects such as images, docs, etc. In our scenario we are planning to use Riak to store uploads to our portal which is a Social Network. Uploads are mostly images with maximum siz