You should definitely upgrade to 0.4, it might mean using raw Thrift but we have at least one person doing that in Perl. (Is Net::Cassandra much more than a thin wrapper anyway?)
Cassandra isn't optimized for blob support (see https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-265 for one proposal to fix this) but 20MB should be doable. -Jonathan On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 4:04 PM, Paul Dumoulin <[email protected]> wrote: > I have been working with Cassandra for a little over a week now, and I’ve > got a quick question. I am trying to figure out if there is a maximum value > size that could cause performance degradation. Is there any reason that > storing or returning a value of 20MB or so may be problematic (key and name > would still be small, just large value). I don’t expect a high number of > reads on large values. I am using version 0.3 because the Net::Cassandra > perl module on CPAN is only compatible with that version. > > > > Thanks.
