@Mat Brown: > (while still retaining compatibility with CQL2 structures).
Do you mean by exceeding what Cassandra itself provides in terms of CQL2/3 interoperability? I'm looking into something similar currently (however in Java not in Ruby) and would be interested in your experiences, if you follow through with the plan. Do you have a blog? Thanks! 2012/11/20 Alain RODRIGUEZ <arodr...@gmail.com> > @Mat > > Well I guess you could add your Ruby client to this list since there is > not a lot of them yet. > > http://wiki.apache.org/cassandra/ClientOptions > > Alain > > > 2012/11/20 Mat Brown <m...@brewster.com> > >> As the author of Cequel, I can assure you it is excellent ; ) >> >> We use it in production at Brewster and it is quite stable. If you try >> it out and find any bugs, we'll fix 'em quickly. >> >> I'm planning a big overhaul of the model layer over the holidays to >> expose all the >> new data modeling goodness in CQL3 (while still retaining >> compatibility with CQL2 structures). >> >> On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 3:42 PM, Harry Wilkinson <hwilkin...@mdsol.com> >> wrote: >> > Update on this: someone just pointed me towards the Cequel gem: >> > https://github.com/brewster/cequel >> > >> > The way it's described in the readme it looks like exactly what I was >> > looking for - a modern, CQL-based gem that is in active development and >> also >> > follows the ActiveModel pattern. I'd be very interested to hear if >> anybody >> > has used this, whether it's stable/reliable, etc. >> > >> > Thanks. >> > >> > Harry >> > >> > On 2 August 2012 00:31, Thorsten von Eicken <t...@rightscale.com> wrote: >> >> >> >> Harry, we're in a similar situation and are starting to work out our >> own >> >> ruby client. The biggest issue is that it doesn't make much sense to >> build a >> >> higher level abstraction on anything other than CQL3, given where >> things are >> >> headed. At least this is our opinion. >> >> At the same time, CQL3 is just barely becoming usable and still seems >> >> rather deficient in wide-row usage. The tricky part is that with the >> current >> >> CQL3 you have to construct quite complex iterators to retrieve a large >> >> result set. Which means that you end up having to either parse CQL3 >> coming >> >> in to insert the iteration stuff, or you have to pass CQL3 fragments >> in and >> >> compose them together with iterator clauses. Not fun stuff either way. >> >> The only good solution I see is to switch to a streaming protocol (or >> >> build some form of "continue" on top of thrift) such that the client >> can ask >> >> for a huge result set and the cassandra coordinator can break it into >> >> sub-queries as it sees fit and return results chunk-by-chunk. If this >> is >> >> really the path forward then all abstractions built above CQL3 before >> that >> >> will either have a good piece of complex code that can be deleted or >> worse, >> >> will have an interface that is no longer best practice. >> >> Good luck! >> >> Thorsten >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> On 8/1/2012 1:47 PM, Harry Wilkinson wrote: >> >> >> >> Hi, >> >> >> >> I'm looking for a Ruby client for Cassandra that is pretty high-level. >> I >> >> am really hoping to find a Ruby gem of high quality that allows a >> developer >> >> to create models like you would with ActiveModel. >> >> >> >> So far I have figured out that the canonical Ruby client for Cassandra >> is >> >> Twitter's Cassandra gem of the same name. It looks great - mature, >> still in >> >> active development, etc. No stated support for Ruby 1.9.3 that I can >> see, >> >> but I can probably live with that for now. >> >> >> >> What I'm looking for is a higher-level gem built on that gem that works >> >> like ActiveModel in that you just include a module in your model class >> and >> >> that gives you methods to declare your model's serialized attributes >> and >> >> also the usual ActiveModel methods like 'save!', 'valid?', 'find', etc. >> >> >> >> I've been trying out some different NoSQL databases recently, and for >> >> example there is an official Ruby client for Riak with a domain model >> that >> >> is close to Riak's, but then there's also a gem called 'Ripple' that >> uses a >> >> domain model that is closer to what most Ruby developers are used to. >> So it >> >> looks like Twitter's Cassandra gem is the one that stays close to the >> domain >> >> model of Cassandra, and what I'm looking for is a gem that's a >> Cassandra >> >> equivalent of RIpple. >> >> >> >> From some searching I found cassandra_object, which has been inactive >> for >> >> a couple of years, but there's a fork that looks like it's being >> maintained, >> >> but I have not found any kind of information to suggest the maintained >> fork >> >> is in general use yet. I have found quite a lot of gems of a similar >> style >> >> that people have started and then not really got very far with. >> >> >> >> So, does anybody know of a suitable gem? Would you recommend it? Or >> >> perhaps you would recommend not using such a gem and sticking with the >> >> lower-level client gem? >> >> >> >> Thanks in advance for your advice. >> >> >> >> Harry >> >> >> >> >> > >> > >
