On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 11:54 AM, DuyHai Doan <doanduy...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Dynamic columns, as you said, are perfectly supported by CQL3 via > clustering columns. > "Perfectly supported" seems a bit expansive as a claim. They are not quite the same thing as actual dynamic columns and are meaningfully worse in some cases... http://www.edwardcapriolo.com/roller/edwardcapriolo/entry/legacy_tables (etc.) > 1) Is using Thrift a valid approach in the era of CQL? > Rational people should presume that Thrift support must eventually disappear, and plan accordingly. Despite having run Cassandra since 0.6 and operating an existing Thrift-centric deploy, I plan to recommend that new projects at Eventbrite examine using CQL3 as soon as I deploy 2.0, which will probably be in mid-2015. =Rob