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From: Sergey Leschenko <sergle.ua@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2013 14:58:14 +0200
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Subject: Re: File Store
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On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 6:47 PM, Kanwar Sangha <kanwar@mavenir.com> wrote:
> Hi =E2=80=93 I am looking for some inputs on the file storage in Cassandr=
a.  Each
> file size can range from 200kb =E2=80=93 3MB.  I don=E2=80=99t see any li=
mitation on the
> column size. But would it be a good idea to store these files as binary i=
n
> the columns ?

We do the same, keeps a lot of small files (up to 15Mb).
Limitation came from the Thrift side - it's bindings requires to load
whole file in memory, but affordable in our case.

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Sergey