On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 9:19 AM, Peter Lin <wool...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I consistently recommend new users learn and understand both Thrift and > CQL. > FWIW, I consider this a disservice to new users. New users should use CQL, and not deploy against a deprecated-in-all-but-name API. Understanding non-CQL *storage* might be valuable, understanding the Thrift interface to storage is anti-valuable. Despite the dissembling public statements regarding Thrift "not going anywhere" it is obvious to me that no other databases exist with two non-pluggable and incompatible APIs for a reason. The pain of maintaining these two APIs will eventually become not worth the backwards compatibility. At this time it will be deprecated and then shortly thereafter removed; I expect this to happen at latest by EOY 2018. [1] =Rob [1] If anyone strongly disagrees, I am taking $20 cash bets, with any proceeds donated to the Apache Foundation.
