Ok thanks for the update. I thought the query string was translated to Thrift, then send to a server.
Victor Kabdebon 2011/6/15 Eric Evans <eev...@rackspace.com> > On Tue, 2011-06-14 at 09:49 -0400, Victor Kabdebon wrote: > > Actually from what I understood (please correct me if I am wrong) CQL > > is based on Thrift / Avro. > > In this project, we tend to use the word "Thrift" as a sort of shorthand > for "Cassandra's RPC interface", and not, "The serialization and RPC > framework from the Apache Thrift project". > > CQL does not (yet )have its own networking protocol, so it uses Thrift > as a means of delivering queries, and serializing the results, but it is > *not* a wrapper around the existing RPC methods. The query string you > provide is parsed entirely on the server. > > -- > Eric Evans > eev...@rackspace.com > >
