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Subject: Re: Cassandra Client Recommendation
From: aaron morton <aaron@thelastpickle.com>
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Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2013 06:21:58 +1200
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One node on the native binary protocol, AFAIK it's still considered beta =
in 1.2

Also +1 for Astyanax

Cheers

-----------------
Aaron Morton
Freelance Cassandra Consultant
New Zealand

@aaronmorton
http://www.thelastpickle.com

On 17/04/2013, at 6:50 PM, Francisco Trujillo =
<F.Trujillo@genetwister.nl> wrote:

> Hi
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> We are using Cassandra 1.6 at this moment. We start to work with =
Hector, because it is the first recommendation that you can find in a =
simple google search for java clients Cassandra.
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> We start using Hector but when we start to have non dynamically column =
families, that can be managed using cql, we start to use astyanax =
because:
> -          It is easy to understand the code even for people who has =
never worked with Cassandra.
> -          The cql implementation offer more capabilities
> -          Astyanax is prepared to use Cql 3 and with hector we =
experienced some problems (probably our fault, but with Astyanax =
everything works from the beginning).
> -          Astyanax allow to use compound primary keys.
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> In next months we are going to substitute Hector by Astyanax totally =
but at this moment we are using both:
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> -          Astyanax for cql.
> -          Hector for dynamic column families.
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> =20
> From: Techy Teck [mailto:comptechgeeky@gmail.com]=20
> Sent: woensdag 17 april 2013 8:14
> To: user
> Subject: Re: Cassandra Client Recommendation
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> Thanks Everton for the suggestion. Couple of questions-
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> 1) Does Astyanax client have any problem with previous version of =
Cassandra?
> 2) You said one problem, that it will consume more memory? Can you =
elaborate that slightly? What do you mean by that?
> 3) Does Astyanax supports asynch capabilities?
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> On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 11:05 PM, Everton Lima =
<peitin.inutil@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Techy,
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> We are using Astyanax with cassandra 1.2.4.=20
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> beneficits:
>  * It is so easy to configure and use.
>  * Good wiki
>  * Mantained by Netflix
>  * Solution to manage the store of big files (more than 15mb)
>  * Solution to read all rows efficiently
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> problems:
>  * It consume more memory
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> 2013/4/16 Techy Teck <comptechgeeky@gmail.com>
> Hello,
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> I have recently started working with Cassandra Database. Now I am in =
the process of evaluating which Cassandra client I should go forward =
with.
> I am mainly interested in these three-
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> --1)      Astyanax client
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> 2--)      New Datastax client that uses Binary protocol.
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> --3)      Pelops client
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> =20
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> Can anyone provide some thoughts on this? Some advantages and =
disadvantages for these three will be great start for me.
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> =20
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> Keeping in mind, we are running Cassandra 1.2.2 in production =
environment.
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> Thanks for the help.
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>=20
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> --=20
> Everton Lima Aleixo
> Bacharel em Ci=EAncia da Computa=E7=E3o pela UFG
> Mestrando em Ci=EAncia da Computa=E7=E3o pela UFG
> Programador no LUPA
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