Cassandra: The Definitive Guide by Hewitt Eben

Cassandra: The Definitive Guide by Hewitt Eben

Author:Hewitt, Eben [Eben Hewitt]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: COMPUTERS / Desktop Applications / Databases
ISBN: 9781449396640
Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc.
Published: 2010-11-11T16:00:00+00:00


Thrift Summary

If you want to use Thrift directly for your project, there are numerous prerequisites for working on Windows (see http://wiki.apache.org/thrift/ThriftInstallationWin32) and many things that can go wrong. Partly because the Thrift project is still nascent, has limitations with transport implementations, and has not received a lot of direct attention since its open source inception, Cassandra is probably switching to Avro.

Avro

The Apache Avro project is a data serialization and RPC system targeted as the replacement for Thrift in Cassandra, starting with version 0.7. Avro was created by Doug Cutting, most famous perhaps for creating Apache Hadoop, the implementation of Google’s MapReduce algorithm.

Avro provides many features similar to those of Thrift and other data serialization and RPC mechanisms such as Google’s Protocol Buffer, including:

Robust data structures



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