Database Reference
In-Depth Information
This library is quite new at the time of this writing, so it has yet to be seen how readily it will be
adopted. Still, it does appear promising, and it speaks to burgeoning interest in Cassandra among
general application developers.
Fauna (Ruby)
Ryan King of Twitter and Evan Weaver created a Ruby client for the Cassandra database called
Fauna. If you envision using Cassandra from Ruby, this might fit the bill. To find out more about
Summary
You should now have an understanding of the variety of client interfaces available for Cassandra
and how to install and use them. There are many Cassandra clients, each with its own strengths
and limitations, in different languages and varying degrees of production-readiness. It's not pos-
sible to cover all of them here, so I've taken a representative sample from a few different lan-
guages. To see a variety of other options that might fit your needs better, see the Cassandra pro-
ject wiki Client Options page at
http://wiki.apache.org/cassandra/ClientOptions
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