For me, it's best to now both and use both where each is strong. that way you get the most out of cassandra.
I am bias in favor of thrift, since I've been contributing to hector and ported hector to C# over the summer. On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 4:20 PM, Edward Capriolo <[email protected]>wrote: > Also you are going to encounter code that uses thirft/hector > thrift/asyanax and if you work on a codebase that was designed before CQL > you still need to support it. There are some concepts people have employed > in those tools like VirtualKeyspaces etc that have not made their way into > CQL. > > > On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 9:00 AM, Peter Lin <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> That's just mis-information by people that don't understand thrift. >> >> The thrift drivers are still much more mature than the java drivers right >> now. DataStax has stated on multiple occasions thrift isn't going any >> where. CQL is fine if people only want to use SQL-like language. Search the >> cassandra mailing list and you'll see this topic comes up regularly. >> >> My bias perspective is "use thrift" to use 100% of the features that >> Cassandra provides, or use pure CQL and limit yourself to 90%. >> >> The main downside of using pure CQL (ie no thrift) is that once you've >> defined a default type for column values, you can't stick arbitrary data >> into dynamic columns. Cassandra will tell you when you try to insert a Date >> when the default value type is int. Basically, it will throw an exception. >> In contrast, if you use thrift, you can insert what ever type you want and >> have total control over what goes into dynamic columns. >> >> For me, the biggest value of dynamic columns + data types is that I can >> insert what ever I want into dynamic columns and still have the safety net >> of knowing the type. A lot of people are afraid of thrift and don't want to >> dive deep, which is fine. I prefer to understand things at a deep level, >> and use a tool to the fullest extent. >> >> peter >> >> >> On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 8:40 AM, Daneel Yaitskov < >> [email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> I've read some articles about Cassandra and I noticed an opinion that >>> Thrift protocol >>> has some flaws. Thrift should go away in the nearest futures. >>> >>> But I cannot find any reference answering the question why is it so bad? >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Daneel S. Yaitskov >>> >> >> >
