Currently I am using Hector which is no longer maintained by its developers. So, for the past few days I have been looking at Astyanax & to be fair, I think I'm just loving its API.
For sometime now I also had a look at CQL Java driver maintained by Datastax but right now, I don't very much love/understand the CQL ways of dealing with things like wide dynamic rows, etc, may be because of the past few years of working with thrift based Hector API. Also I think it's not a really simple transition to move from thrift to CQL. So I am using Cassandra 2.0.7 & I wanted to know: 1. Does Astyanax(thrift based) supports Cassandra 2.0. ? 2. *What is the future of thrift based APIs *(& specifically Astyanax) ? 3. where do I get support for Astyanax ? 4. Is it recommended to delay my plans to migrate from thrift to CQL & just use thrift based API for now?
