Re: Proposal: freeze Thrift starting with 2.1.0

2014-03-13 Thread Edward Capriolo
There was a paging bug in 2.0 and a user just reported a bug sorting a one row dataset. So if you want to argue cql has surpassed thrift in all ways, one way it clearly has not is correctness. To demonatrate, search the changelog for cql bugs that return wrong result. Then do the same search for

Re: Proposal: freeze Thrift starting with 2.1.0

2014-03-13 Thread Michael Kjellman
Ed- I understand and respect your enthusiasm for Thrift, but it's ship has sailed. Yes- if you understand the low level thrift API I'm sure you can have a rewarding experience, but as someone who wrote a client and had to abstract thrift...I don't have many kind words, and I certainly have

Re: Proposal: freeze Thrift starting with 2.1.0

2014-03-13 Thread Nate McCall
Essentially, Usergrid supports *all* of the basic mongo CRUD operations on top of Cassandra, passing all of their test cases that don't use any out-of-the-way functions. Would it be possible to build something similar *solely* with CQL? If it's doable on top of thrift, it's doable