On 31 May 2011, at 08:28, Amrita Jayakumar wrote: > Can you please tell me what is thrift and what is it used for??? I mean is it > necessary to use cassandra? do i have to install it separately??? or does it > come along with the cassandra package?
It's the underlying protocol stack that cassandra clients use to talk to cassandra, so it's part of the package. Docs here: http://thrift.apache.org/ You probably don't need to worry about it directly. Marcus
