This is just an FYI. I experimented w/ Spring Data JPA w/ Cassandra leveraging Kundera.
It sort of worked: https://github.com/boneill42/spring-data-jpa-cassandra http://brianoneill.blogspot.com/2012/07/spring-data-w-cassandra-using-jpa.html I'm now working on a pure Spring Data adapter using Astyanax: https://github.com/boneill42/spring-data-cassandra I'll keep you posted. (Thanks to all those that helped out w/ advice) -brian -- Brian ONeill Lead Architect, Health Market Science (http://healthmarketscience.com) mobile:215.588.6024 blog: http://weblogs.java.net/blog/boneill42/ blog: http://brianoneill.blogspot.com/