Agree with Stefan 100% on this. We need to move towards pluggability. Our users are asking for it, it makes sense architecturally, and people are doing it anyway.
... > for me definitely https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-9633 > > I am surprised nobody mentioned this in the previous answers, there is > ~50 people waiting for it to happen and multiple people working on it > seriously and wanting that feature to be there for so so long. > ...