AFAIK there is no server side chunking of column values. This link http://wiki.apache.org/cassandra/FAQ#large_file_and_blob_storage is just suggesting in the app you do not store more than 64MB per column.
Cheers ----------------- Aaron Morton Freelance Cassandra Developer @aaronmorton http://www.thelastpickle.com On 30 Jun 2011, at 07:25, A J wrote: > From what I read, Cassandra allows a single column value to be up-to > 2GB but would chunk the data if greater than 64MB. > Is the chunking transparent to the application or does the app need to > know if/how/when the chunking happened for a specific column value > that happened to be > 64MB. > > Thank you.