> You should be using the thrift API, or a wrapper around the thrift API. It > looks like you're using internal cassandra classes.
The goal is to get around using the overhead of the Thrift API for a bulk import. > There is a Java wrapper called Hector, and there was another talked about on > the mail list recently. Isn't Hector another layer on top of Thrift? > There is also a bulk import / export tool see > http://wiki.apache.org/cassandra/Operations ...and linked from that page http://wiki.apache.org/cassandra/BinaryMemtable which is what I am trying to get working :) cheers -- Torsten