Hi, just discovered the voting thread and wanted to raise my hand to in an attempt to maintain the Apache Cassandra connector. At work Kafka -> Flink -> Cassandra is a very common usage pattern for me.
>From other ongoing threads I got that the connectors would be removed from >main repository anyways and in the future maintained in the >https://github.com/apache/flink-connectors repo, right ? >From the listed topic I think that the adopting the new ASync API combined >with probably support for Cassandra 4.0 are the most pressing issue. Best reagards, Marco On 2022/01/21 08:22:42 Martijn Visser wrote: > Hi everyone, > > We're looking for community members, who would like to maintain Flink's > Cassandra connector [1] going forward. The connector currently is only > available as a Sink for DataStream users and the original contributors are > unable to work on further improvements. > > An overview of some of the things that are missing on the Cassandra > connector: > > * Not using the Unified Sink API [2] or ASync API [3] > * Can't be used in the Table API / SQL > * Not available as a Source > * Not available for Lookups > * Not using the latest supported versions for Cassandra > > If you would like to take on this responsibility or can join this effort in > a supporting role, please reach out! > > If we can't find maintainers for this connector, I'll open up a vote to > deprecate this connector and remove it. > > I'm looking forward to your thoughts. > > Best regards, > > Martijn Visser > https://twitter.com/MartijnVisser82 > > [1] > https://nightlies.apache.org/flink/flink-docs-master/docs/connectors/datastream/cassandra/ > [2] > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/FLINK/FLIP-143%3A+Unified+Sink+API > [3] https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/FLINK/FLIP-171%3A+Async+Sink >
