If you want to manage opaque blobs then you should probably use Riak or Voldemort. Cassandra gives you a set of one-size-fits-most tools that by and large work

If you want to manage opaque blobs then you should probably use Riak or Voldemort. Cassandra gives you a set of one-size-fits-most tools that by and large work very well together, but if you want more of a build-your-own-database toolkit, it is a bad fit.