According to the astynax blog the project will support the java-driver - https://github.com/Netflix/astyanax/wiki/Astyanax-over-Java-Driver
On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 8:36 AM, Andrew <redmu...@gmail.com> wrote: > 1. Astyanax does not *officially* support 2.0, and I’m not sure what the > future plans are for them. > 2. Thrift is deprecated but not removed. However, > 3. It’s an open-source project based on Netflix’ internal usage of it > (they wrote Astyanax). There is a mailing list available for questions ( > https://groups.google.com/group/astyanax-cassandra-client) but YMMV. > 4. I understand your hesitation, but the functions you are mentioning are > offered by Cassandra—not the driver. You are also not *required* to use > new features… they are just available to you now. Depending on how you’ve > set your DAOs up (you are using DAOs or similar, right?), it should be > fairly simple to migrate—certainly not harder than changing client > libraries in general. > > Personally, I was using Astyanax for a while before I wanted to update > Cassandra to 2.x—there’s not a huge difference between it and the Datastax > Cassandra driver. I’m not sure what the perceived benefits of Thrift over > the binary interface are, other than people being familiar with one over > another. > > Andrew > > On May 28, 2014 at 7:19:52 AM, user 01 (user...@gmail.com) wrote: > > Currently I am using Hector which is no longer maintained by its > developers. So, for the past few days I have been looking at Astyanax & to > be fair, I think I'm just loving its API. > > For sometime now I also had a look at CQL Java driver maintained by > Datastax but right now, I don't very much love/understand the CQL ways of > dealing with things like wide dynamic rows, etc, may be because of the past > few years of working with thrift based Hector API. Also I think it's not a > really simple transition to move from thrift to CQL. > > So I am using Cassandra 2.0.7 & I wanted to know: > > 1. Does Astyanax(thrift based) supports Cassandra 2.0. ? > 2. *What is the future of thrift based APIs *(& specifically Astyanax) ? > 3. where do I get support for Astyanax ? > 4. Is it recommended to delay my plans to migrate from thrift to CQL & > just use thrift based API for now? > > >
