RE: CQL vs. non-CQL data models

://stackoverflow.com/questions/11726294/connectiong-to-cassandra-keyspace-created-in-cql-3 From: aaron morton [mailto:aa...@thelastpickle.com] Sent: Thursday, March 28, 2013 4:42 AM To: user@cassandra.apache.org Subject: Re: CQL vs. non-CQL data models Is this data model defined by Thrift? How closely does it

Re: CQL vs. non-CQL data models

Hi, Thanks for the helpful reply, Aaron! I also found this Datastax blog post very helpful in this case: http://www.datastax.com/dev/blog/thrift-to-cql3 marko Aaron Morton wrote: >> Is this data model defined by Thrift? How closely does it reflect the >> Cassandra internal data model? > Yes. >

Re: CQL vs. non-CQL data models

> Is this data model defined by Thrift? How closely does it reflect the > Cassandra internal data model? Yes. Astynax is a thrift based API, and the thrift model closely matches the internal model. CQL 3 provides some abstractions on top of the internal model. > Is there any documentation or o

CQL vs. non-CQL data models

Hi, I'm experimenting with CQL3 and the non-CQL Cassandra data access methods through Astyanax client API. Being new to Cassandra I'm a bit puzzled by differences between the CQL3 data model and the non-CQL based data model exposed by the Astyanax client API. Is this data model defined by Thrift?