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
On Thu, 2010-11-04 at 09:30 -0700, Dave Viner wrote:
1. How does replacing thrift/avro with a SQL-inspired query language make
the server more stable? As a client, I still need to connect via something,
and that something will make something like an RPC call to the server. In
traditional
A QL can shield clients from a class of changes, but OTOH will make clients
have to compose the query strings, where with type safe libraries this job
is somewhat easier. IMO in the near term introducing a query language will
make client dev somewhat harder b/c of the (somewhat negligible) work of
