2010/10/29 Ted Zlatanov <t...@lifelogs.com>: > I think the sane, reasonable, simple path is to make the query language > as similar to SQL as possible (which EricQL seems to aim for). Just > making the queries pure text would be terrific, in any case. Then a > JDBC driver or a Perl DBD driver (and their parallels in Ruby, Python, > etc.) would be so much easier to write and Cassandra clients wouldn't > have to be so damn complicated.
I think this is the biggest win for a "dialect of SQL" support; ORM implementors are used to having to special case some things on a per-db basis (e.g. TOP vs LIMIT; CONNECT BY vs WITH RECURSIVE, etc) but if the basic SELECT and UPDATE work then we are 90% of the way there. -- Jonathan Ellis Project Chair, Apache Cassandra co-founder of Riptano, the source for professional Cassandra support http://riptano.com
