Database Reference
In-Depth Information
APIs available for Apache Cassandra development.
Figure 11-2
shows a chart of up-
coming Cassandra releases at the time of this writing (taken from
ht-
Figure 11-2
.
Upcoming Cassandra releases (as of November 2014)
There is absolutely no doubt that Cassandra has been widely accepted as a pre-
ferred columnar database for building scalable big data applications. Companies such
as eBay, Netflix, and Facebook are using Cassandra for multiple purposes. Developers
from these organizations have been regularly contributing and introducing their
Cassandra-based tools, which bodes well for the future.
Furthermore, there are high-level clients available in almost all language options.
Table 11-1
shows a table listing popular high-level Cassandra client APIs.
Table 11-1
.
Cassandra High-Level Clients
Language
Clients
Java
DataStax Java driver, Astyanax, Hector, Kundera
Python
DataStax Python driver, pycassa
.NET
DataStax C# driver,CqlSharp
C++
libcql
Scala
scqla
Perl
perlcassa
