Eric did some preliminary testing that showed competitive speed w/ traditional Thrift API but the next step in accuracy would be to add CQL support to stress.java. Aaron has a work in progress on https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-2268 -- I'm sure he wouldn't mind if you wanted to jump in and help.
On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 12:49 PM, Pierre Chalamet <pie...@chalamet.net> wrote: > Hello, > > > > I'm authoring a new .NET client for Cassandra (there : > <http://code.google.com/p/cassandra-sharp/> > http://code.google.com/p/cassandra-sharp/) - it is using the Thrift API for > the moment but I would not be against supporting CQL. > > > > Unfortunately, I have some doubt on performance - the command is an ASCII > string and it looks like performance will be pretty bad when transferring > big data (considering data is hex-encoded - it's just the double of the data > that will flow on the network). > > > > Am I missing something ? > > > > Thanks, > > - Pierre > > -- Jonathan Ellis Project Chair, Apache Cassandra co-founder of DataStax, the source for professional Cassandra support http://www.datastax.com