In Akka (www.akkasource.org) we have a Cassandra backend for our persistence
API as well as a DSLish Scala coating over the Thrift Java interface.
(supporting connection pooling etc)

http://doc.akkasource.org/persistence

All in all Cassandra is an interesting product with impressive capabilities
being just at version 0.5.1!

On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 11:36 PM, Michael Neale <[email protected]>wrote:

> Cassandra - the non SQL distributed database.
>
> Recently twitter spoke about how they switched onto it (from heavily
> sharded MySQL). Note that it originated at facebook. So we have 2 of
> the biggest (and probably most important) social network platforms of
> our times depending on it now, and it is written in java - I guess
> there is life in the old JVM yet for "systems" programming.
>
> http://incubator.apache.org/cassandra/
>
> http://nosql.mypopescu.com/post/407159447/cassandra-twitter-an-interview-with-ryan-king
>
> Would love to hear from people who use it/have played with it etc..
> (it seems in most use cases I hear, the clients are non java apps -
> using Thrift).
>
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