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List:       cassandra-dev
Subject:    Re: CQL or Thrift ?
From:       Jake Farrell <jfarrell () apache ! org>
Date:       2013-08-16 1:33:47
Message-ID: CANyrgvc-gaJzNDwAYWGv+VfgYsmq1ptSgi1enk8fFPS1F1JcWg () mail ! gmail ! com
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Eric
do you have any numbers for this?

-Jake


On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 10:34 AM, Eric Evans <eevans@sym-link.com> wrote:

> [ Nulik Nol ]
> > I need a client in C (not C++) to work with Cassandra, so since there
> > is no one yet I would do my own. So far I have checked, I can do it
> > through Thrift RPC port, or through CQL port. As I understand, CQL
> > doesn't support direct "mutate" or "get_range_slices" calls like
> > Thrift does , so being Thrift API more low level, it should be faster
> > for specific queries my application would execute. The question is,
> > what do you recommend me to use, Thrift or CQL3 native protocol?
>
> Performance is likely to be the least important consideration when
> comparing the two, but luckily we don't have to have that argument; CQL is
> actually faster.
>
> --
> Eric Evans
> eevans@sym-link.com
>


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