Re: encoding of values in cassandra

2010-11-10 Thread Jonathan Ellis
We are moving towards treating Thrift more as a driver than as a format itself, and using libraries like Hector, pycassa, and phpcassa from the client. On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 1:03 PM, Koert Kuipers wrote: > Cassandra keys and values are just bytes. My values range from simple > doubles to comple

encoding of values in cassandra

2010-11-10 Thread Koert Kuipers
Cassandra keys and values are just bytes. My values range from simple doubles to complex objects so I need to serialize them with something like avro, thrift or protobuf. Since I am working in a test environment and casssandra is moving to avro I decided to use the avro protocol to communicate