Hector is an abstraction to pure thrift. I prefer https://github.com/Netflix/astyanax
If you are just starting and can wait for the official 1.2 release (obviously in production you can use trunk or the rc versions) then take a look at https://github.com/datastax/java-driver Best, mike From: Baskar Sikkayan <techba...@gmail.com<mailto:techba...@gmail.com>> Reply-To: "user@cassandra.apache.org<mailto:user@cassandra.apache.org>" <user@cassandra.apache.org<mailto:user@cassandra.apache.org>> Date: Friday, December 28, 2012 7:24 PM To: "user@cassandra.apache.org<mailto:user@cassandra.apache.org>" <user@cassandra.apache.org<mailto:user@cassandra.apache.org>> Subject: Cassadra API for Java Hi, I am new to Apache Cassandra. Could you please suggest me good java API( Hector, thrift or .....) for Cassandra? Thanks, Baskar.S +91 97394 76008 Join Barracuda Networks in the fight against hunger. To learn how you can help in your community, please visit: http://on.fb.me/UAdL4f