title: Cassandra maximum realistic blob size
body: <p>I'm trying to evaluate a few distributed storage platforms and Cassandra is one of them.
  Our requirement is to save files between 1MB and 50MB of size and according to Cassandra's documentation <a href="http://docs.datastax.com/en/cql/3.3/cql/cql_reference/blob_r.html" rel="noreferrer">http://docs.datastax.com/en/cql/3.3/cql/cql_reference/blob_r.html</a>:</p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>The maximum theoretical size for a
    blob is 2 GB. The practical limit on blob size, however, is less than
    1 MB.</p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>Does anyone have experience storing files in Cassandra as blobs? Any luck with it? Is the performance really bad with bigger file sizes?</p>
  
  <p>Any other suggestion would also be appreciated!</p>