Re: CQL How to do

2011-06-06 Thread Nate McCall
It is specific to the Hector client API, but I just started on a guide that may be of some help, particularly in regards to column configuration and query encoding: https://github.com/rantav/hector/wiki/Using-CQL 2011/6/4 Yonder : > Hi, > > In Cassandra 0.8, CQL become the primary client interface

Re: CQL How to do

2011-06-05 Thread Jeffrey Kesselman
Fair enough. I do have to keep reminding myself that a REST interface requires text. And it does make more sense, at least, when coming from a human as opposed to when you make a computer spend cycles converting binary to text just so another computer can spend cycles turning it back again. On Su

Re: CQL How to do

2011-06-05 Thread aaron morton
From what I've seen of CQL there is no comparison between the potential complexity of a CQL statement and that of a SQL statement. IMHO CQL is more or less a human readable form of the current API, it does not add features. SQL statements are arbitrarily complex and may generate many possible qu

Re: CQL How to do

2011-06-05 Thread Eric Evans
On Sun, 2011-06-05 at 00:51 -0400, Jeffrey Kesselman wrote: > Is CQL really the path for the future for Cassandra? CQL is no more or less "official" than the Thrift interface, and TTBMK, there is no secret cabal that met to decide it would be The Way. People will use what works best for them, and

Re: CQL How to do

2011-06-04 Thread Jeffrey Kesselman
Is CQL really the path for the future for Cassandra? It seems to me by introducing a textual language that has to be parsed and understood, you are adding back in some of the inefficiency of SQl... 2011/6/4 aaron morton : > May be wrong but as far as I know thrift is still the official API, for n

Re: CQL How to do

2011-06-04 Thread aaron morton
May be wrong but as far as I know thrift is still the official API, for now. CQL is in it's first release and still has a few things to be added to it https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-2472 . That said, jump in and try it out :) The best documentation I can point you to is https

CQL How to do

2011-06-04 Thread Yonder
Hi, In Cassandra 0.8, CQL become the primary client interface, but I don't know how to use it in a non-command line env. I could not find out any how-to do docs in Wiki or DataStax's website. Thanks