Hi Brian, It's an interesting one. Hope you don't mind some feedback .....I see you have been making rounds publicizing the concept and patch (like on my blog ; ) http://blog.sasha.dolgy.com/2011/05/apache-cassandra-restful-api.html)
For me, and the goals I have, I'm not sure this is fit for purpose. I built an API that implements the business processes, business rules, security and policies of what I require. I made it RESTful to allow consumers quick and easy access.... The API implements Hector or PHPCassa depending on my mood. Both libraries provide an element of Connection Pooling, meaning I don't have to worry about that in my code. It just works.... The cost to me writing code that leverages Hector or PHPCassa isn't that high when I compare it to writing code that would leverage a RESTful interface. I'd have to think about Connection Pooling / selecting the best available node, etc. I think the cost would be higher unless it's a one or two node infrastructure or there is a load balancer in front of all of the Cassandra interfaces so that I don't have to think about it .. Would I leverage the RESTful interface if it existed with Cassandra? Probably not. I am happy with the libraries as they are today .. and they let me bundle in a bunch of fun (batch mutates, connection pooling, etc). They aren't overly complicated and make overall development and integration quite simple. I definitely think that people who are looking into Apache Cassanda for the first time may look for this feature and/or CQL ... and in that respects, it's something good to have. Probably the best question I read in the JIRA ticket ( https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-3380 ) is: "...what problem the REST API solves..." , which is still not clear to me... -sd On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 5:48 AM, Brian ONeill <b...@alumni.brown.edu> wrote: > Peter Minearo <Peter.Minearo <at> Reardencommerce.com> writes: > > > Thrift uses RPC, I was wondering if Cassandra uses Thrift on the server > side to > > handle the requests from the clients? I know Thrift is used on the > client > > side, but what about the server side? If this is true; is there a > reason for > > it? Was a REST API with a JSON payload tried? Are there any plans to > > create a REST API for Cassandra? > > > We started work on an extension to Cassandra that would deliver a > REST layer. > > Check out: > http://tinyurl.com/3ktnc9f > http://code.google.com/a/apache-extras.org/p/virgil/ > > -brian >
