Some of you might already be aware, but I recently proposed a query language as an alternative to (or full replacement for) the Thrift/Avro RPC interfaces.
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.db.cassandra.devel/2370 For me, this isn't so much about making the raw Cassandra interface "easier", as it is about making it more *stable*. Or to put it another way, I continue to believe that high quality idiomatic client libraries are The Answer, what I want to do is make it easier for library maintainers to focus on the features of *their* APIs, and spend less time chasing Cassandra's, while giving user's interfaces that are backward compatible across major versions. That makes this group the primary target audience, and so I'd love to have everyone involved in the process. If this interests you, I've submitted a Cassandra issue to coordinate the related goals for 0.8. https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-1703 Discuss! -- Eric Evans eev...@rackspace.com
