The Storm Project, http://storm-project.net/, would add processing of
ActivityStreamsEntry objects to Apache Streams (make it faster). Storm has
integration support for Cassandra. There is an available Java Driver to hook up
Storm and Cassandra available here: https://github.com/ptgoetz/storm-cassandra.
While I think it is a good idea to add Storm to Streams, Cassandra recommends
using CQL3 as an interface from applications to the database which moves away
from older thrift clients: http://wiki.apache.org/cassandra/ClientOptions.
These older thrift clients include Astyanax and Hector (I have had experience
incorporating both into the project, with varied success). The newer client
which relies on CQL3 support is the Datastax Java Driver:
https://github.com/datastax/java-driver. I've looked into the Datastax driver
and have been very pleased with the CQL support. However, it is not very far
along in the development process and doesn't have an object mapper and I'm
cautious adopting a product so early in its development.
If we were to integrate Storm and Streams would we want to use the
storm-cassandra driver or should we look into adding the Datastax driver which
has better CQL support?
Danny
