At least one person is putting in chunks of up to 64MB, so at some level it "works" but it's not what it's designed for.
2010/2/3 Ted Zlatanov <t...@lifelogs.com>: > On Tue, 2 Feb 2010 23:05:04 -0600 Jonathan Ellis <jbel...@gmail.com> wrote: > > JE> The "atom" in cassandra is a single column. These are almost always > JE> under 1KB. > > Is there any point to storing large objects (over 100MB) in Cassandra > columns? I'm considering it but it seems like a bad idea based on my > reading of the source and experience so far. If I could do it it would > eliminate my need for shared resources (NAS, web server, etc.) to serve > those objects. > > Ted > >