On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 2:09 PM, Peter Lin <wool...@gmail.com> wrote:
> on the topic of multiple incompatible API's I recommend you look at > SqlServer and Sybase. Most of the legacy RDBMS have multiple incompatible > API. Though in some cases, it is/was unavoidable. > My bet is that the small development team responsible for Cassandra does not have anything like the number of contractual obligations that commercial databases from the 1980s had. In other words, I believe having two persistent, non-pluggable (this attribute probably excludes various "legacy" APIs?) APIs is far more "avoidable" in the Cassandra case than in the historic cases you cite. I could certainly be wrong... people who disagree with my assessment now have a way to make me pay for my wrongness by making me donate $20 to the Apache Foundation on Jan 1, 2019. [1] :D =Rob [1] Project committers/others with material ability (Datastax...) to affect outcome ineligible.
