Brian, If you end up doing something with the rest api and making it available/open source, please post again either here or on the user list. I think others would be interested and may contribute to it.
Cheers, Jeremy On Oct 10, 2011, at 8:42 PM, Brian O'Neill wrote: > 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/ >>> >> > > > > -- > 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/
