Just to add my 2 cents... We are very happy CQL users, running in production.
I have had no problems modeling whatever I have needed to, including problems similar to the examples set forth previously, in CQL. Personally I think it is an excellent improvement to Cassandra, and we have no intentions to ever look back to thrift. Michael Laing Systems Architect NYTimes On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 7:49 PM, Edward Capriolo <edlinuxg...@gmail.com>wrote: > > > On Thursday, February 20, 2014, Robert Coli <rc...@eventbrite.com> wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 9:12 AM, Sylvain Lebresne <sylv...@datastax.com> > wrote: > >> > >> Of course, if everyone was using that reasoning, no-one would ever test > new features and report problems/suggest improvement. So thanks to anyone > like RĂ¼diger that actually tries stuff and take the time to report problems > when they think they encounter one. Keep at it, *you* are the one helping > Cassandra to get better everyday. > > > > > > Perhaps people who are prototyping their first application with a piece > of software are not the ideal people to beta test it? > > > > The people catching new version bullets for the community should be > experienced operators choosing to do so in development and staging > environments. > > The current paradigm ensures that new users have to deal with Cassandra > problems that interfere with their prototyping process and initial > production deploy, presumably getting a very bad initial impression of > Cassandra in the process. > > =Rob > > > > You would be surprised how many people pick software a of software b based > on initial impressions. > > The reason I ended up choosing cassandra over hbase mostly boilded down to > c* being easy to set up and not crashing. If it took us say 3 days to stand > up a cassandra cluster and do the hello world thing i might very well be a > voldemort user! > > > > > > > -- > Sorry this was sent from mobile. Will do less grammar and spell check than > usual. >