Re: Why Hector is taking more time than Thrift

2012-06-06 Thread R. Verlangen
Hector is a higher-level client that provides some abstraction and an easy to use interface. The Thrift API is pretty raw. So for most cases the Hector client would be the best choice; except for use-cases where the ultimate performance is a requirement (resulting in lots of more maintenance betwee

Why Hector is taking more time than Thrift

2012-06-06 Thread Prakrati Agrawal
Dear all I am trying to evaluate the performance of Cassandra and wrote a code to retrieve a complete row ( having 43707 columns) using Thrift and Hector. The thrift client code took 0.767 seconds while Hector code took 0.883 seconds . Is it expected that Hector will be slower than Thrift? If ye