There is also an excellent tutorial video done by Patrick McFadin and Aaron Morton on the subject of data model for storing images into Cassandra: http://youtu.be/gk-B75xgFUg
I guess it can be adapted to store binary objects other than images On Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 6:37 AM, Jack Krupansky <jack.krupan...@gmail.com> wrote: > Chunk the blobs and store them in a separate table from the metadata. > > Here's an old attempt at a chunked object store, for reference: > https://github.com/Netflix/astyanax/wiki/Chunked-Object-Store > > Picking an appropriate chunk size may be key (or not). Somewhere between > 8K and 512K, I would guess, but it probably doesn't matter a lot and could > be tuned and even configured dynamically. > With a smaller chunk size you have the option of reading lots of small > chunks with separate requests or as a slice. > > It seems like there has been a fair amount of negative sentiment about > using Cassandra as a blob/object store, but I personally do think it is > workable to at least some extent. > > A lot of my background is with Solr for search, including a little with > DSE Search. > > > -- Jack Krupansky > > On Mon, Jan 18, 2016 at 9:52 PM, Kevin Burton <bur...@spinn3r.com> wrote: > >> Internally we have the need for a blob store for web content. It's >> MOSTLY key, ,value based but we'd like to have lookups by coarse grained >> tags. >> >> This needs to store normal web content like HTML , CSS, JPEG, SVG, etc. >> >> Highly doubt that anything over 5MB would need to be stored. >> >> We also need the ability to store older versions of the same URL for >> features like "time travel" where we can see what the web looks like over >> time. >> >> I initially wrote this for Elasticsearch (and it works well for that) but >> it looks like binaries snuck into the set of requirements. >> >> I could Base64 encode/decode them in ES I guess but that seems ugly. >> >> I was thinking of porting this over to CS but I'm not up to date on the >> current state of blobs in C*... >> >> Any advice? >> >> -- >> >> We’re hiring if you know of any awesome Java Devops or Linux Operations >> Engineers! >> >> Founder/CEO Spinn3r.com >> Location: *San Francisco, CA* >> blog: http://burtonator.wordpress.com >> … or check out my Google+ profile >> <https://plus.google.com/102718274791889610666/posts> >> >> >
