AVRO client API

2010-06-18 Thread Atul Gosain
Hi Is the client API for cassandra available in AVRO. If so, any links to examples or some documentation ? and If so, any comparison between Thrift and Avro API's to determine the better of them ? Thanks Atul

Re: AVRO client API

2010-06-18 Thread Eric Evans
On Fri, 2010-06-18 at 12:27 +0530, Atul Gosain wrote: Is the client API for cassandra available in AVRO. Significant parts of it, but it is not yet finished. If so, any links to examples or some documentation? There is no samples or documentation yet, sorry. and If so, any comparison

Re: AVRO client API

2010-06-18 Thread Eric Evans
On Fri, 2010-06-18 at 11:00 -0700, Paul Brown wrote: At the risk of asking about religion (but with no interest in hearing about it), why Avro instead of something like plain-old-JSON over HTTP? At the risk of having this thread veer off on a very long tangent... In a nutshell, we need a way

Re: AVRO client API

2010-06-18 Thread B. Todd Burruss
i'll jump in ... why AVRO over Thrift. can you guys point me at a comparison? (i know next to nothing about both of them) On 06/18/2010 03:41 PM, Paul Brown wrote: On Jun 18, 2010, at 2:12 PM, Eric Evans wrote: On Fri, 2010-06-18 at 11:00 -0700, Paul Brown wrote: At the risk of

Re: AVRO client API

2010-06-18 Thread Tatu Saloranta
On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 2:12 PM, Eric Evans eev...@rackspace.com wrote: On Fri, 2010-06-18 at 11:00 -0700, Paul Brown wrote: At the risk of asking about religion (but with no interest in hearing about it), why Avro instead of something like plain-old-JSON over HTTP? At the risk of having

Re: AVRO client API

2010-06-18 Thread Tatu Saloranta
On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 4:57 PM, Miguel Verde miguelitov...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 6:23 PM, Tatu Saloranta tsalora...@gmail.com wrote: Not that I wanted to criticize choices, but do they actually allow use of JSON as encoding? Avro does use JSON for specifying schemas, but