> > > I just finished reading "Cassandra: The Definitive Guide" which seems > pretty out of date and while very informative as to the technology that > Cassandra uses, was not very helpful from the perspective of an > application developer. > > Very very out of date…
> Having said that, what Java clients should I be looking at? I'd recommend the Datastax Java Driver. Works really well for us and if you're familiar with JDBC it will be easy to get up and running fast. They are supporting it pretty aggressively too… the custom data type stuff is already supported in 2.1. > Are there > any reasonably mature PoJo mapping techs for Cassandra analogous to > Hibernate? One was just posted to the list… I would say there are 2-3 … I posted on the same question and there's a thread around my email address if you want to search for it. I personally ended up writing my own that just used a velocity code generator so I could control the byte code output easily. > I can't say that I'm looking forward to yet another *QL > variant but I guess CQL is going to be a necessity. It's very close to an abbreviated SQL92 with a few less features. You won't have a problem. -- Founder/CEO Spinn3r.com Location: *San Francisco, CA* blog: http://burtonator.wordpress.com … or check out my Google+ profile <https://plus.google.com/102718274791889610666/posts> <http://spinn3r.com>
