Re: CQL vs Thrift

2013-07-17 Thread Jonathan Ellis
On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 4:03 PM, Tyler Hobbs wrote: > I'll leave it to somebody else to comment on adding collections, etc to > Thrift. Doesn't make sense, since Thrift is all about the raw data cells, and collections are an abstraction layer on top of that. -- Jonathan Ellis Project Chair, Apa

Re: CQL vs Thrift

2013-07-17 Thread Brandon Williams
On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 3:18 PM, Vladimir Prudnikov wrote: > I read somewhere that it will be for backward compatibility, but does it > mean that new features > will not be added to the Thrift interface Yes, the thrift interface will remain stable and not be changing. -Brandon

Re: CQL vs Thrift

2013-07-17 Thread Tyler Hobbs
Hi, I'm the maintainer of pycassa and the DataStax python-driver. I just broke some fingers, so I will be brief. Regarding performance, the python driver is brand new and still has some issues to be worked out around performance (C extension, locking and signaling). How you use it has a big impa

CQL vs Thrift

2013-07-17 Thread Vladimir Prudnikov
Hi all, This is may be is not the right place to ask, but I though developers can answer to my questions better than users. It looks clear that Cassandra dev team concentrates on CQL rather than Thrift interface. I'm considering using Cassandra as a storage for my current project which will repla