Gary Dusbabek:
A lot of people, when first learning about Cassandra, wonder why there isn’t any easier (say, RESTful) way to perform operations. I did. It didn’t take someone very long to point out that it mainly has to do with performance. Cassandra spends a significant amount of resources marshaling data and Thrift currently does that very efficiently.
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I eventually arrived at the decision that an HTTP Cassandra Daemon/Server pair similar to the existing Avro and Thrift versions would do the trick. It would basically be a straight port, with a few minor caveats. One big thing is that HTTP uses a new connection for each request, so storing Cassandra session information in threadlocals is gone out the window. This means that authentication needs to be abandoned, done with every request, or we need to use HTTP sessions. Punt.
I sound like a broken record: better protocols always help with adoption
Original title and link: RESTful Cassandra (NoSQL databases © myNoSQL)
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