Forget. The text value can be upto 2GB in size, but in practice it will be less.
Thanks Jabbar Azam On 6 November 2013 21:12, Jabbar Azam <aja...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello Techy Teck, > > Couldn't find any evidence on the datastax website but found this > http://wiki.apache.org/cassandra/CassandraLimitations > > which I believe is correct. > > > Thanks > > Jabbar Azam > > > On 6 November 2013 20:19, Techy Teck <comptechge...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> We are using CQL table like this - >> >> CREATE TABLE testing ( >> description text, >> last_modified_date timeuuid, >> employee_id text, >> value text, >> PRIMARY KEY (employee_name, last_modified_date) >> ) >> >> >> We have made description as text in the above table. I am thinking is >> there any limitations on text data type in CQL such as it can only have >> certain number of bytes and after that it will truncate? >> >> Any other limitations that I should be knowing? Should I use blob there? >> >> >