Re: Best PHP client

2010-04-02 Thread Michael Pearson
> As  said by Jonathan, SimpleCassie and Pandra are both based on Thrift.. I > think a Cassandra upgrade will require an upgrade of Thrift classes of high > level clients too. Am I right ? This is right but impact on these libraries isn't significant unless a Thrift API dependency is quickly depre

Re: Best PHP client

2010-04-02 Thread David Timothy Strauss
I've written one here as a Drupal module, but it isn't very Drupal-specific: http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~davidstrauss/pressflow/cassandra-votingapi/files/head:/sites/all/modules/cassandra/ I think my interface is a little prettier than SimpleCassie. You can see it in action in the test suite

Re: Best PHP client

2010-04-02 Thread yaw
Peter, I agree with you, but sometimes choice can be very easy, if a tool offers real advantages ... During several weeks, I have thought that choice could be : low level (thrift) or high level (pandra) as described on Cassandra Wiki.. Today, I discovered that SimpleCassie exists ... (I especi

Re: Best PHP client

2010-04-02 Thread Peter Chang
Questions like "What is the best ___?" that have subjective answers are rarely simple. I've tried various clients and I'd just recommend trying a few out and getting involved win the projects. Some may have adavtnages of ease of use while others may be more flexible or have features such as connec

Re: Best PHP client

2010-04-02 Thread Jonathan Ellis
You need Thrift for any of the others. On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 11:48 AM, yaw wrote: > Hi all, > just a (simple ?) question for today : > > What is the best client for Cassandra ? > > - Thrift (need to build compiler first) > - Pandra (seems not updated) > - SimpleCassie  (just discovered it few mi

Best PHP client

2010-04-02 Thread yaw
Hi all, just a (simple ?) question for today : What is the best client for Cassandra ? - Thrift (need to build compiler first) - Pandra (seems not updated) - SimpleCassie (just discovered it few minutes ago) Is there any other PHP client ? If Cassandra is upgraded (0.5 to 0.6) , I suppose they