Re: Cassandra blob vs base64 text

2017-02-20 Thread Benjamin Roth
You could save space when storing your data (base64-)decoded as blobs. 2017-02-20 13:38 GMT+01:00 Oskar Kjellin : > We currently have some cases where we store base64 as a text field instead > of a blob (running version 2.0.17). > I would like to move these to blob but wondering what benefits and

Cassandra blob vs base64 text

2017-02-20 Thread Oskar Kjellin
We currently have some cases where we store base64 as a text field instead of a blob (running version 2.0.17). I would like to move these to blob but wondering what benefits and optimizations there are? The possible ones I can think of is (but there's probably more): * blob is stored as off heap B