I contribute to Hector. It is still being maintained. I still benefits of using thrift over CQL.
On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 10:19 AM, user 01 <user...@gmail.com> wrote: > Currently I am using Hector which is no longer maintained by its 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? > > >
