Thanks Jason for the information - I’m going to continue researching and hope more people will chime in that are on the PMC.
Thank you. Cheers, Chris ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Chris Mattmann, Ph.D. Chief Architect Instrument Software and Science Data Systems Section (398) NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Pasadena, CA 91109 USA Office: 168-519, Mailstop: 168-527 Email: chris.a.mattm...@nasa.gov WWW: http://sunset.usc.edu/~mattmann/ ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Director, Information Retrieval and Data Science Group (IRDS) Adjunct Associate Professor, Computer Science Department University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089 USA WWW: http://irds.usc.edu/ ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ On 6/3/16, 8:33 PM, "Jason Brown" <jasedbr...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > >The client-server protocol is well defined in the Cassandra repo, so any one >may implement a client library for any language. However, it is a far from >trivial task, so not many folks build their own. Thus, already-built drivers >tend to become the de facto > standard, but we (the Apache Cassandra committers/PMC) do not/have not > blessed any vendor's driver(s) as official. > > >As to why there is not a canonical set of drivers in the Cassandra repo, well, >we've just never gotten into that game as an OSS community. > > >-Jason (not affiliated with DataStax) > >On Friday, June 3, 2016, Johan Edstrom <seij...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > >On Jun 3, 2016, at 9:14 PM, Jeff Jirsa <jeff.ji...@crowdstrike.com ><javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','jeff.ji...@crowdstrike.com');>> wrote: > > >https://github.com/hector-client/hector > > > > > > >So - that isn’t doing CQL, Right? > > >https://github.com/Netflix/astyanax > > > > > > >Upgrading to CQL? > > > >http://doanduyhai.github.io/Achilles/ > > > > > > > >Which driver do you use? > > >https://github.com/noorq/casser > > > > > > ><cassandra-driver-core.version>2.1.5</cassandra-driver-core.version> > > > > > >https://github.com/impetus-opensource/Kundera > > > > > > ><profile> ><id>ds-driver</id> ><activation> ><activeByDefault>false</activeByDefault> ></activation> ><modules> ><module>cassandra-core</module> ><module>cassandra-ds-driver</module> ></modules> ></profile> ><profile> ><id>thrift</id> ><activation> ><activeByDefault>false</activeByDefault> ></activation> ><modules> ><module>cassandra-core</module> ><module>cassandra-thrift</module> ></modules> ></profile> > > > > > > > > > > >https://github.com/deanhiller/playorm > > > > > > > > > > > > >- Jeff ( Not affiliated with datastax ) > > > > > >On 6/3/16, 7:58 PM, "Johan Edstrom" <seij...@gmail.com ><javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','seij...@gmail.com');>> wrote: > > >How many Java drivers could you point out? >Doesn’t it strike you slightly off that you’d not have a driver for a DB >in the same project you found the DB? > > > >On Jun 3, 2016, at 8:51 PM, Dave Brosius <dbros...@mebigfatguy.com ><javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','dbros...@mebigfatguy.com');>> wrote: > >There are many drivers for cassandra, supplied by various individuals and >groups, one of those drivers was started by people at datastax which is >available as an opensource project. > >The open source project is not open to any random person on the internet to >commit to (just like any open source project), so i suppose in that regard >there is some 'control'. But i doubt that is what you are fishing for. > >--dave > >(not affiliated with datastax) > >On 06/03/2016 10:29 PM, Chris Mattmann wrote: >Hi All, > >I’m investigating something a few ASF members contacted >me about and pointed out, so I’m hoping you can help >guide me here as a community. I have heard that a company, >DataStax, whose marketing material mentions it as the only >Cassandra vendor, “controls” the Java Driver for Apache >Cassandra. > >Of course, no company “controls” our projects or its code, >so I told the folks that mentioned it to me that I’d investigate >with my board hat on. > >I’d like to hear the community’s thoughts here on this. Does >anyone in the community see this “controlling” behavior going >on? Please speak up, as I’d like to get to the bottom of it, >and I’ll be around on the lists, doing some homework and reading >up on the archives to see what’s up. > >Thanks for any help you can provide in rooting this out. > >Cheers, >Chris > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >