4 Months with Cassandra at Cloudkick (YC W09)

Re:4 Months with Cassandra at Cloudkick (YC W09) by pquerna on Tuesday March 02, 2010 @08:12PM (#1163042)

This is an issue specifically with Thrift -- not with Cassandra.

You can see the opinion of the Cassandra developers, which is pretty negative towards thrift, in the linked ticket: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/THRIFT-601

This is one of the many reasons the Cassandra developers are looking at replacing Thrift with Avro: http://hadoop.apache.org/avro/

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Re:4 Months with Cassandra at Cloudkick (YC W09) by rmanocha on Tuesday March 02, 2010 @10:04PM (#1163246)

Can someone explain why Protocol Buffers (http://code.google.com/apis/protocolbuffers/) is not being used more widely?? It it 'cause of the limited language support (Java/C++/Python only) or some other reason??

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Re:4 Months with Cassandra at Cloudkick (YC W09) by jhammerb on Wednesday March 03, 2010 @02:02AM (#1163595)

Google also kept the RPC side of Protocol Buffers, which is called Stubby, as an internal project.

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Re:4 Months with Cassandra at Cloudkick (YC W09) by evgen on Wednesday March 03, 2010 @12:47AM (#1163504)

Protocol Buffers has limited language support, the implementation in one popular language (Python) blows goats, and even though it predates Thrift it was not released until after Thrift arrived so its community is smaller. The number of people who need this sort of product is relatively limited, so the early traction that Thrift has gained will take a bit of time or some compelling reasons to overcome.

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Re:4 Months with Cassandra at Cloudkick (YC W09) by wooster on Tuesday March 02, 2010 @10:16PM (#1163265)

Myself, I've stopped using protobuf because it's super slow in Python.

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Re:4 Months with Cassandra at Cloudkick (YC W09) by ddispaltro on Tuesday March 02, 2010 @11:54PM (#1163425)

It definitely has much better documentation.

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