What is the maximum length of data passed to cassandra column

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Rajesh Kumar picture Rajesh Kumar · Jan 15, 2015 · Viewed 11.7k times · Source

Is there any limit on maximum length we can specify for a column while creating Cassandra table, if yes, then how much we can specify?

I am new to using Cassandra, please let me know

Answer

Yasmeen picture Yasmeen · Jan 15, 2015

The maximum number of cells (rows x columns) in a single partition is 2 billion and the maximum column key (and row key) size is 64KB and the maximum column value size is 2 GB. you can refer this https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/CASSANDRA2/CassandraLimitations

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