Dop,
Thank you for trying out hector. I think you have the right approach
for using it with your project. Feel free to ping us directly
regarding Hector on either of these mailings lists as appropriate:
http://wiki.github.com/rantav/hector/mailing-lists

Cheers,
-Nate

On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 7:11 AM, Dop Sun <su...@dopsun.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
>
>
> I have downloaded hector-0.6.0-10.jar. As you mentioned, it has good
> implementation for the connection pooling, JMX counters.
>
>
>
> What I’m doing is: using Hector to create the Cassandra client (be specific:
> borrow_client(url, port)). And my understanding is: in this way, the
> Jassandra will enjoy the client pool and JMX counter.
>
>
>
> http://code.google.com/p/jassandra/issues/detail?id=17
>
>
>
> Please feel free to let me know if you have any suggestions.
>
>
>
> The new build 1.0.0 build 3(http://code.google.com/p/jassandra/) created.
> From Jassandra client side, no API changes.
>
>
>
> Cheers~~~
>
> Dop
>
>
>
> From: Ran Tavory [mailto:ran...@gmail.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, April 20, 2010 1:36 AM
> To: user@cassandra.apache.org
> Subject: Re: Cassandra Java Client
>
>
>
> Hi Dop, you may want to look at hector as a low level cassandra client on
> which you build jassandra, adding hibernate style magic etc like other ppl
> have done with ORM layers on top of it.
>
> Hector's main features include extensive jmx counters, failover and
> connection pooling.
>
> It's available for all recent versions, including 0.5.0, 0.5.1, 0.6.0 and
> 0.6.1
>
> On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 5:58 PM, Dop Sun <su...@dopsun.com> wrote:
>
> Well, there are couple of points while Jassandra is created:
>
> 1. First of all, I want to create something like that is because I come from
> JDBC background, and familiar with Hibernate API. The ICriteria (which is
> created for querying) is inspired by the Criteria API from hibernate.
>
> Actually, maybe because of this background, it cost me a lot efforts try to
> understand Cassandra in the beginning and Thrift API also takes time to use.
>
> 2. The Jassandra creates a layer, which removes the direct link to
> underlying Thrift API (including the exceptions, ConsistencyLevel
> enumeration etc)
>
> High light this point because I believe the client of the Jassandra will
> benefit for the implementation changes in future, for example, if the
> Cassandra provides better Thrift API to selecting the columns for a list of
> keys, SCFs, or deprecating some structures, exceptions, the client may not
> be changed. Of cause, if Jassandra failed to approve itself, this is
> actually not the advantage. :)
>
> 3. The Jassandra is designed to be an JDBC like API, no less, no more. It
> strives to use the best API to do the quering (with token, key, SCF/ CF),
> doing the CRUD, but no more than that. For example, it does not cover any
> API like object mapping. But it should cover all the API functionalities
> Thrift provided.
>
> These 3 points, are different from Hector (I should be honest that I have
> not tried to use it before, the feeling of difference are coming from the
> sample code Hector provided).
>
> So, the API Jassandra abstracted was something like this:
>
>    IConnection connection = DriverManager.getConnection(
>        "thrift://localhost:9160", info);
>    try {
>      // 2. Get a KeySpace by name
>      IKeySpace keySpace = connection.getKeySpace("Keyspace1");
>
>      // 3. Get a ColumnFamily by name
>      IColumnFamily cf = keySpace.getColumnFamily("Standard2");
>
>      // 4. Insert like this
>      long now = System.currentTimeMillis();
>      ByteArray nameFirst = ByteArray.ofASCII("first");
>      ByteArray nameLast = ByteArray.ofASCII("last");
>      ByteArray nameAge = ByteArray.ofASCII("age");
>      ByteArray valueLast = ByteArray.ofUTF8("Smith");
>      IColumn colFirst = new Column(nameFirst, ByteArray.ofUTF8("John"),
> now);
>      cf.insert(userName, colFirst);
>
>      IColumn colLast = new Column(nameLast, valueLast, now);
>      cf.insert(userName, colLast);
>
>      IColumn colAge = new Column(nameAge, ByteArray.ofLong(42), now);
>      cf.insert(userName, colAge);
>
>      // 5. Select like this
>      ICriteria criteria = cf.createCriteria();
>      criteria.keyList(Lists.newArrayList(userName))
>          .columnRange(nameAge, nameLast, 10);
>      Map<String, List<IColumn>> map = criteria.select();
>      List<IColumn> list = map.get(userName);
>      Assert.assertEquals(3, list.size());
>      Assert.assertEquals(valueLast, list.get(2).getValue());
>
>      // 6. Delete like this
>      cf.delete(userName, colFirst);
>      map = criteria.select();
>      Assert.assertEquals(2, map.get(userName).size());
>
>      // 7. Get count like this
>      criteria = cf.createCriteria();
>      criteria.keyList(Lists.newArrayList(userName));
>      int count = criteria.count();
>      Assert.assertEquals(2, count);
>    } finally {
>      // 8. Don't forget to close the connection.
>      connection.close();
>
>    }
>  }
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jonathan Ellis [mailto:jbel...@gmail.com]
> Sent: Monday, April 19, 2010 10:35 PM
> To: user@cassandra.apache.org
>
> Subject: Re: Cassandra Java Client
>
> How is Jassandra different from http://github.com/rantav/hector ?
>
> On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 9:21 AM, Dop Sun <su...@dopsun.com> wrote:
>> May I take this chance to share this link here:
>>
>> http://code.google.com/p/jassandra/
>>
>>
>>
>> It currently based with Cassandra 0.6 Thrift APIs.
>>
>>
>>
>> The class ThriftCriteria and ThriftColumnFamily has direct use of Thrift
>> API. Also, the site itself has test code, which is actually works on
>> Jassandra abstraction.
>>
>>
>>
>> Dop
>>
>>
>>
>> From: Nirmala Agadgar [mailto:nirmala...@gmail.com]
>> Sent: Friday, April 16, 2010 5:56 PM
>> To: user@cassandra.apache.org
>> Subject: Cassandra Java Client
>>
>>
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Can anyone tell how to implement Client that can insert data into
> cassandra
>> in Java. Any Code or guidelines would be helpful.
>>
>> -
>> Nirmala
>>
>
>

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