t; the API slightly. Either way, it won't be backported to 0.6.
>
> But you can write to Cassandra from the Hadoop job just fine w/o an
> OutputFormat. Just create a Thrift connection in your reduce job.
>
> On Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 6:24 PM, Keith Stevens
> wrote:
> >
Hello,
I'm currently working on a project that is using HBase and Hadoop, but i'm
currently looking into alternatives to HBase. Cassandra seems to be the
next best replacement, or perhaps a better replacement, except that the
stable release is lacking support for hadoop jobs writing to Cassandra.