", I don't know of any use cases for Thrift that can't be > done in CQL"
Can dynamic composites be used from CQL? On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 4:44 AM, Sylvain Lebresne <sylv...@datastax.com>wrote: > +1 to Jonathan's proposal. > > > On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 6:00 PM, Jonathan Ellis <jbel...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > CQL3 is almost two years old now and has proved to be the better API > > that Cassandra needed. CQL drivers have caught up with and passed the > > Thrift ones in terms of features, performance, and usability. CQL is > > easier to learn and more productive than Thrift. > > > > With static columns and LWT batch support [1] landing in 2.0.6, and > > UDT in 2.1 [2], I don't know of any use cases for Thrift that can't be > > done in CQL. Contrawise, CQL makes many things easy that are > > difficult to impossible in Thrift. New development is overwhelmingly > > done using CQL. > > > > To date we have had an unofficial and poorly defined policy of "add > > support for new features to Thrift when that is 'easy.'" However, > > even relatively simple Thrift changes can create subtle complications > > for the rest of the server; for instance, allowing Thrift range > > tombtones would make filter conversion for CASSANDRA-6506 more > > difficult. > > > > Thus, I think it's time to officially close the book on Thrift. We > > will retain it for backwards compatibility, but we will commit to > > adding no new features or changes to the Thrift API after 2.1.0. This > > will help send an unambiguous message to users and eliminate any > > remaining confusion from supporting two APIs. If any new use cases > > come to light that can be done with Thrift but not CQL, we will commit > > to supporting those in CQL. > > > > (To a large degree, this merely formalizes what is already de facto > > reality. Most thrift clients have not even added support for > > atomic_batch_mutate and cas from 2.0, and popular clients like > > Astyanax are migrating to the native protocol.) > > > > Reasonable? > > > > [1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-6561 > > [2] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-5590 > > > > -- > > Jonathan Ellis > > Project Chair, Apache Cassandra > > co-founder, http://www.datastax.com > > @spyced > > >
