We are moving towards treating Thrift more as a driver than as a format itself, and using libraries like Hector, pycassa, and phpcassa from the client.
On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 1:03 PM, Koert Kuipers <koert.kuip...@diamondnotch.com> wrote: > Cassandra keys and values are just bytes. My values range from simple > doubles to complex objects so I need to serialize them with something like > avro, thrift or protobuf. > > > > Since I am working in a test environment and casssandra is moving to avro I > decided to use the avro protocol to communicate with cassandra (from python > and java). So naturally I would also like to encode my values with avro (why > have 2 serialization frameworks around?). However avro needs to safe the > schema with the serialized values. This is considerable overhead (even if I > just safe pointers to schemas or something like that with the serialized > values). It also seems complicated compared to thrift or protobuf where one > can just store values. > > > > Did anyone find a neat solution to this? Or should I just use avro for > communication and something like protobuf for value serialization? > > > > Best, Koert > > -- Jonathan Ellis Project Chair, Apache Cassandra co-founder of Riptano, the source for professional Cassandra support http://riptano.com
