Re: CQL3 and clients for new Cluster

2013-01-25 Thread Michaël Figuière
If your project isn't meant to go in production immediately and you want to use Cassandra 1.2+, you can give a try to DataStax' new Java driver which is available at https://github.com/datastax/java-driver Just a snapshot for now. A 1.0 release is expected for late March, meanwhile we'll iterate ov

Re: CQL3 and clients for new Cluster

2013-01-24 Thread Peter Lin
I use both Thrift and CQL. my bias take is use CQL for select queries and thrift for insert/update. I like being able to insert exactly the data type I want for the column name and value. CQL is more user friendly, but it lacks the flexibility of thrift in terms of using different data types for c

Re: CQL3 and clients for new Cluster

2013-01-24 Thread Aaron Turner
Either CQL or a higher level API running on top of Thrift like Hector/Asyntax/etc. Thrift is uh... painful. On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 3:35 PM, Matthew Langton wrote: > Hi all, > > I started looking at Cassandra awhile ago and got used to the Thrift API. I > put it on the back burner for awhile tho

Re: CQL3 and clients for new Cluster

2013-01-24 Thread Hiller, Dean
@cassandra.apache.org>" mailto:user@cassandra.apache.org>> Subject: CQL3 and clients for new Cluster Hi all, I started looking at Cassandra awhile ago and got used to the Thrift API. I put it on the back burner for awhile though until now. To get back up to speed I have read a lo

CQL3 and clients for new Cluster

2013-01-24 Thread Matthew Langton
Hi all, I started looking at Cassandra awhile ago and got used to the Thrift API. I put it on the back burner for awhile though until now. To get back up to speed I have read a lot of documentation at the DataStax website, and it appears that the Thrift API is no longer considered the ideal way to