+1 to Hector (especially with the changes made in the latest version of their API)
On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 12:01 AM, Steve Willcox <swill...@rallydev.com>wrote: > I'm using Hector. > > The main contributor Nate McCall is very active and responsive to any > issues. The Hector community is very active. > > I've been using Java for a long time and I disagree that the client is > more complex than the underlying Thrift client. The latest version of Hector > has made large gains in simplifying the API. It has connection caching, load > balancing and failover build into its client. > > I found it easy to use and stable. My code has been in production since > April 2011 and we've not had one Hector issue yet. > > Hope that helps > > Steve W. > > On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 4:02 PM, Daniel Colchete <d...@cloud3.tc> wrote: > >> Good day everyone! >> >> I'm getting started with a new project and I'm thinking about using >> Cassandra because of its distributed quality and because of its performance. >> >> I'm using Java on the back-end. There are many many things being said >> about the Java high level clients for Cassandra on the web. To be frank, I >> see problems with all of the java clients. For example, Hector and >> Scale7-pelops have new semantics on them that are neither Java's or >> Cassandra's, and I don't see much gain from it apart from the fact that it >> is more complex. Also, I was hoping to go with something that was annotation >> based so that it wouldn't be necessary to write boilerplate code (again, no >> gain). >> >> Demoiselle Cassandra seems to be one option but I couldn't find a download >> for it. I'm new to Java in the back-end and I find that maven is too much to >> learn just because of a client library. Also it seems to be hard to >> integrate with the other things I use on my project (GWT, GWT-platform, >> Google Eclipse Plugin). >> >> Kundera looks great but besides not having a download link (Google site >> link to Github, that links to Google site, but no download) its information >> is partitioned on many blog posts, some of them saying things I couldn't >> find on its website. One says it uses Lucandra for indexes but that is the >> only place talking about it, no documentation about using it. It doesn't >> seem to support Cassandra 0.8 also. Does it? >> >> I would like to hear from the users here what worked for you guys. Some >> real world project in production that was good to write in Java, where the >> client was stable and is maintained. What are the success stories of using >> Cassandra with Java. What would you recommend? >> >> Thank you very much! >> >> Best, >> -- >> Dani >> Cloud3 Tech - http://cloud3.tc/ >> Twitter: @DaniCloud3 @Cloud3Tech >> > > -- Thanks, - Rajesh Koilpillai
