Using collections

This release of Cassandra includes collection types that provide an improved way of handling tasks, such as building multiple email address capability into tables. Observe the following limitations of collections:

• The maximum size of an item in a collection is 64K.
• Keep collections small to prevent delays during querying because Cassandra reads a collection in its entirety. The collection is not paged internally.

  As discussed earlier, collections are designed to store only a small amount of data.

• Never insert more than 64K items in a collection.

  If you insert more than 64K items into a collection, only 64K of them will be queryable, resulting in data loss.