As a heads-up, the Thrift API for Cassandra 0.8 has several changes, one of which is backwards-incompatible:
KsDefs no longer have a replication_factor attribute; it has been moved into the KsDef's strategy_options. The other changes include new operations and types for counters as well as several new attributes for CfDef. Feel free to email me if you have any questions about the changes. -- Tyler Hobbs Software Engineer, DataStax <http://datastax.com/> Maintainer of the pycassa <http://github.com/pycassa/pycassa> Cassandra Python client library
