Return-Path: X-Original-To: apmail-cassandra-user-archive@www.apache.org Delivered-To: apmail-cassandra-user-archive@www.apache.org Received: from mail.apache.org (hermes.apache.org [140.211.11.3]) by minotaur.apache.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B2E5E77F5 for ; Thu, 25 Aug 2011 15:10:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 81197 invoked by uid 500); 25 Aug 2011 15:10:50 -0000 Delivered-To: apmail-cassandra-user-archive@cassandra.apache.org Received: (qmail 81083 invoked by uid 500); 25 Aug 2011 15:10:50 -0000 Mailing-List: contact user-help@cassandra.apache.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Post: List-Id: Reply-To: user@cassandra.apache.org Delivered-To: mailing list user@cassandra.apache.org Received: (qmail 81075 invoked by uid 99); 25 Aug 2011 15:10:50 -0000 Received: from athena.apache.org (HELO athena.apache.org) (140.211.11.136) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with ESMTP; Thu, 25 Aug 2011 15:10:50 +0000 X-ASF-Spam-Status: No, hits=1.5 required=5.0 tests=HTML_MESSAGE,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW X-Spam-Check-By: apache.org Received-SPF: unknown (athena.apache.org: error in processing during lookup of evgeniy.ryabitskiy@wikimart.ru) Received: from [74.125.82.44] (HELO mail-ww0-f44.google.com) (74.125.82.44) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with ESMTP; Thu, 25 Aug 2011 15:10:44 +0000 Received: by wwf5 with SMTP id 5so2052493wwf.25 for ; Thu, 25 Aug 2011 08:10:22 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.216.159.73 with SMTP id r51mr5915212wek.17.1314285022470; Thu, 25 Aug 2011 08:10:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.216.27.14 with HTTP; Thu, 25 Aug 2011 08:10:22 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2011 19:10:22 +0400 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Is Cassandra suitable for this use case? From: Evgeniy Ryabitskiy To: user@cassandra.apache.org Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=0016e6498298e5e15604ab55d32d --0016e6498298e5e15604ab55d32d Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Hi, If you want to store files with partition/replication, you could use Distributed File System(DFS). Like http://hadoop.apache.org/hdfs/ or any other: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed_file_system Still you could use Cassandra to store any metadata and filepath in DFS. So: Cassandra + HDFS would be my solution. Evgeny. --0016e6498298e5e15604ab55d32d Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi,

If you want to store files with partition/replication, you could= use Distributed File System(DFS).
Like http://hadoop.apache.org/hdfs/
or any other:
http://en.wikiped= ia.org/wiki/Distributed_file_system

Still you could use Cassandra to store any metadata and filepath in DFS= .

So: Cassandra + HDFS would be my solution.

Evgeny.

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