Short answer : yes Long anwser: depending on whether you want to access Cassandra using Thrift of the native CQL3 protocole, different options are available. For Thrift access, lots of choices (Hector, Astyanax...). For CQL3 right now the only Java client so far is the one provided by Datastax
"Does Cassandra itself (i.e. the apache-cassandra-* jars) not contain any CQL clients?" No, the apache jars only ship the server-related components. On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 2:00 PM, Timmy Turner <timm.t...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > is the DataStax "Java Driver for Apache Cassandra" ( > https://github.com/datastax/java-driver) the official/recommended Java > Client to use for accessing Cassandra from Java? > > Does Cassandra itself (i.e. the apache-cassandra-* jars) not contain any > CQL clients? > > > Thanks! >
