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> On Dec 28, 2015, at 8:54 AM, Robert Stupp <sn...@snazy.de> wrote:
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> Robert Stupp
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>> Am 28.12.2015 um 15:26 schrieb Jonathan Ellis <jbel...@gmail.com>:
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>> Thrift has been officially frozen for almost two years and unofficially for
>> longer. [1] Meanwhile, maintaining Thrift support through changes like
>> 8099 has been a substantial investment.
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>> I propose deprecating Thrift now and removing support in 4.0, i.e. Nov 2016
>> if tick-tock goes as planned.
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>> I note that only 7% of our survey respondents [2] are using Thrift-only,
>> and and those users are often on old releases (1.1 and 1.2), i.e. unlikely
>> to upgrade to 4.x anyway.
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>> Another 20% of users are using a mix of Thrift and CQL. Some have been
>> unable to completely migrate because CQL doesn’t quite provide every
>> feature from Thrift. The last such outstanding issue is mixing static and
>> dynamic Thrift “columns” in a single table. We have an issue open to
>> address this [3].
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>> I think it is reasonable to either deprecate Thrift immediately in 3.2 or
>> to wait until 10857 is committed in 3.4.
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>> [1]
>> http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/cassandra-dev/201403.mbox/%3ccaldd-zim6knmr7f_zcpvpqk0b2g919tttathiuofnvlztaw...@mail.gmail.com%3E
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>> [2]
>> https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1FegCArZgj2DNAjNkcXi1n2Y1Kfvf6cdZedkMPYQdvC0/edit#gid=0
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>> [3] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-10857
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>> Jonathan Ellis
>> Project Chair, Apache Cassandra
>> co-founder, http://www.datastax.com
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