Pelops is a very thin wrapper over the Thrift client so that could be a good option.
You could also check out a fork by the VMWare/Spring guys which adds full async support: https://github.com/andrewswan/scale7-pelops. I'm not sure on the state of it, but it seems promising... On Thursday, 28 June 2012 at 11:04 AM, James Pirz wrote: > Dear all, > > I am interested in using Cassandra 1.1.1 in a read-intensive scenario, where > more than 95% of my operations are get(). > I have a cluster with ~10 nodes, around 15-20 GB of data on each, while in > the extreme case I expect to have 20-40 concurrent clients. > > I am kind of confused about which high level java client should I use ? > (Which one is the best/fastest for concurrent read operations) > Hector, Pelops, Astyanax, or something else ? > > I browsed the mailing list, but I came across different types of arguments > and conclusions on behalf of various clients. > > Thanks in advance, > > James