Ok I guess I have to read up on exactly what is going on here. I figured I could download twissandra, fire up cassandra and run the app!
I thought all you needed was the python driver which comes with twissandra. Let me read more about Thrift and generating client code etc. thanks! On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 5:04 PM, Michael Pearson <[email protected]>wrote: > Twissandra is packaged with pycassa + correct generated thrift > transports under /deps already, so really just need the thrift binary > to build from a cassandra.thrift API newer than what's currently > supported by the bundled pycassa. > > -michael > > On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 1:55 PM, Stu Hood <[email protected]> wrote: > > You'll need Thrift installed to generate the _client_ code: the server > code is embedded within Cassandra. > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: "S Ahmed" <[email protected]> > > Sent: Monday, July 12, 2010 3:49pm > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: Re: server needs thrift to run also? > > > > confused, why does the installation guide say to build and make it then? > > http://github.com/ericflo/twissandra > > > > <http://github.com/ericflo/twissandra>twissandar is for 0.6.1 is that > why? > > i.e. it was embedded in a later version? > > > > > > On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 4:46 PM, Stu Hood <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > >> The Thrift server is embedded in Cassandra, and starts by default. Look > for > >> references to Thrift on: > http://wiki.apache.org/cassandra/GettingStarted > >> > >> Thanks, > >> Stu > >> > >> -----Original Message----- > >> From: "S Ahmed" <[email protected]> > >> Sent: Monday, July 12, 2010 3:43pm > >> To: [email protected] > >> Subject: server needs thrift to run also? > >> > >> I'm trying to follow along the twissandra installation instructions. > >> > >> So to get it running I have to install Thrift. > >> > >> So thrift runs as another service? So communication is done via thrift, > >> which then communicates to Cassandra on another port? > >> > >> > >> > > > > > > >
