Database Reference
In-Depth Information
Figure8-4.The Ring screen shows system usage
Overall, the web console presents an intuitive, attractive interface that makes it easy to perform
basic administration tasks for your Cassandra setup.
Hector (Java)
Hector is an open source project written in Java using the MIT license. It was created by Ran
Tavory of Outbrain (previously of Google) and is hosted at GitHub. It was one of the early Cas-
sandra clients and is used in production at Outbrain. It wraps Thrift and offers JMX, connection
pooling, and failover.
NOTE
In Greek mythology, Hector was the builder of the city of Troy and was known as an outstanding war-
rior. He was also Cassandra's brother.
Because Hector was one of the first Cassandra client projects, and because it is used by a wide
variety of developers and even has other client projects based on it (see
HectorSharp (C#)
), we'll
write a complete but simple example application using it.
