Hi, I need a client in C (not C++) to work with Cassandra, so since there is no one yet I would do my own. So far I have checked, I can do it through Thrift RPC port, or through CQL port. As I understand, CQL doesn't support direct "mutate" or "get_range_slices" calls like Thrift does , so being Thrift API more low level, it should be faster for specific queries my application would execute. The question is, what do you recommend me to use, Thrift or CQL3 native protocol? Thrift API supports CQL , but not the other way around. If commands go through CQL, there will be some Java code executed and I don't know which would be faster, sending the raw "mutate"s through thrift by C application or executing a prepared CQL3 query by Java? I am interested more in performance, rather than in easiness of use. Will appreciate very much your comments.
Nulik
