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Subject: Re: libcassandra - C++ Cassandra Client
Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:10:03 -0600
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On Mar 11, 2010, at 10:51 PM, "Padraig O'Sullivan" <osullivan.padraig@gmail.com 
 > wrote:

> On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 11:31 PM, Avinash Lakshman
> <avinash.lakshman@gmail.com> wrote:
>> How is Drizzle being integrated with Cassandra? Are there any  
>> resources on
>> the Internet that I could read up?
>
> The idea is to create a storage engine (along with some
> INFORMATION_SCHEMA tables probably) in drizzle on top of cassandra but
> we are just starting to think about it so there is no resources
> available right now.
>
> Keep an eye on the blueprints and code branches of drizzle for work on
> it. Any tasks we are working on, we will likely create a blueprint for
> it. Blueprints and code branches are available on launchpad -
> http://launchpad.net/drizzle
>
>>
>> Thanks
>> Avinash
>>
>> On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 8:12 PM, Padraig O'Sullivan
>> <osullivan.padraig@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> We have developed a C++ client library based on the hector Java  
>>> client
>>> for Cassandra that we intend on using for Drizzle integration. This
>>> library is still very much alpha and more features will be added  
>>> while
>>> we work on drizzle integration. Connection pooling or failover is
>>> currently not implemented but will likely be added in the very near
>>> future.
>>>
>>> The source is available on github at:
>>> http://github.com/posulliv/libcassandra
>>>
>>> -Padraig
>>
>>

Interesting. What would be an example use case? Would this be more  
appropriate for a static set of columns? I can imagine having access  
to a mysql dialect would make for easy access to some simple orm  
mapping using existing libraries among other things.