Astyanax is a hector fork. You can see many of the hector' authors comments still in the astyanax code. There is some nice stuff in there but (IMHO) I do not see the fork as necessary. It has split up the community a bit, as there are now 3 high level Java clients.
I would advice follow Josh's advice http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPG4sK_glls . Go to reddit and select whatever sexy technology is new and trending :) On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 2:51 PM, Michael Kjellman <mkjell...@barracuda.com>wrote: > Lots of example code, nice api, good performance as the first things that > come to mind why I like Astyanax better than Hector > > From: Andrey Ilinykh <ailin...@gmail.com> > Reply-To: "user@cassandra.apache.org" <user@cassandra.apache.org> > Date: Wednesday, November 28, 2012 11:49 AM > To: "user@cassandra.apache.org" <user@cassandra.apache.org>, Wei Zhu < > wz1...@yahoo.com> > Subject: Re: Java high-level client > > First at all, it is backed by Netflix. They used it production for long > time, so it is pretty solid. Also they have nice tool (Priam) which makes > cassandra cloud (AWS) friendly. This is important for us. > > Andrey > > > On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 11:53 AM, Wei Zhu <wz1...@yahoo.com> wrote: > >> We are using Hector now. What is the major advantage of astyanax over >> Hector? >> >> Thanks. >> -Wei >> >> ------------------------------ >> *From:* Andrey Ilinykh <ailin...@gmail.com> >> *To:* user@cassandra.apache.org >> *Sent:* Wednesday, November 28, 2012 9:37 AM >> >> *Subject:* Re: Java high-level client >> >> +1 >> >> >> On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 10:10 AM, Michael Kjellman < >> mkjell...@barracuda.com> wrote: >> >> Netflix has a great client >> >> https://github.com/Netflix/astyanax >> >> >> >> > > ---------------------------------- > 'Like' us on Facebook for exclusive content and other resources on all > Barracuda Networks solutions. > Visit http://barracudanetworks.com/facebook > >
