On Sat, Aug 3, 2013 at 11:06 PM, Prabath Abeysekera <[email protected]>wrote:
> >> I'm wondering whether using a relational DB blob store is good enough for >> a start. >> > > IMO, HDFS too doesn't have any added advantage over a Relational/Any other > blob store with respect to this particular use case as it's just going to > be used as a container for those media, etc files. However, considering the > OOTB capabilities of scalabilities and support for fault tolerance, etc > maybe HDFS/Cassandra would be a good choice? > Yes what they need is a scalable blob store. If Cassandra is good for that we can go with that since that's older and better understood. The main thing is that storing the file in the regular file system doesn't work in an (elastic) cluster environment. Sanjiva. -- Sanjiva Weerawarana, Ph.D. Founder, Chairman & CEO; WSO2, Inc.; http://wso2.com/ email: [email protected]; phone: +94 11 763 9614; cell: +94 77 787 6880 | +1 650 265 8311 blog: http://sanjiva.weerawarana.org/ Lean . Enterprise . Middleware
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