Thanks Gary. Perfect.  Checking it out now.

Performance isn't much of a concern for us through the REST interface.  We
are using the Hadoop/PIG integration to do the heavy lifting.  This will be
mostly for reads and small number of writes.

I'll definitely give this a try.  Thanks again.  I'll let you know how it
turns out.

-brian

On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 9:35 PM, Gary Dusbabek <gdusba...@gmail.com> wrote:

> It turns out that it is pretty easy (or it was a year ago) to replace
> the native Cassandra transport with your own.  I wrote about it on my
> blog (http://www.onemanclapping.org/2010/09/restful-cassandra.html),
> using REST as an example.
>
>
> On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 20:12, Brian O'Neill <b...@alumni.brown.edu>
> wrote:
> > My team desperately needs a REST API for Cassandra.
> >
> > I saw the following:
> > http://code.google.com/p/restish/
> > from
> >
> http://crlog.info/2011/01/29/restish-wrapper-for-hectorcassandra-data-manipulation/
> >
> > But it appears to have little activity and documentation.
> >
> > That lead me to start work on a contrib/rest module, but before I get to
> far
> > I wanted to ask if there was any effort underway for a REST Server/API.
> > If not, I'll continue developing the REST server.  Any preference for a
> REST
> > stack?  (JAX-RS on Apache-CXF?  Raw Servlets? Netty? etc.)
> >
> > Until I hear back, I'll continue with the JAX-RS / Apache CXF
> implementation
> > I have cooking.
> >
> > -brian
> >
> > --
> > Brian ONeill
> > Lead Architect, Health Market Science (http://healthmarketscience.com)
> > mobile:215.588.6024
> > blog: http://weblogs.java.net/blog/boneill42/
> > blog: http://brianoneill.blogspot.com/
> >
>



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