On Jun 18, 2010, at 8:01 AM, Eric Evans wrote: > On Fri, 2010-06-18 at 12:27 +0530, Atul Gosain wrote: >> Is the client API for cassandra available in AVRO. > Significant parts of it, but it is not yet finished. >> If so, any links to examples or some documentation? > There is no samples or documentation yet, sorry. >> and If so, any comparison between Thrift and Avro API's to determine >> the better of them? > The Plan is to develop enough critical mass around the Avro API that > Thrift can be deprecated. We don't want to maintain more than one of > these long-term.
At the risk of asking about religion (but with no interest in hearing about it), why Avro instead of something like plain-old-JSON over HTTP? -- Paul
