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Idiomatic Client Libraries with Cassandra + PHP?

On this video (at 29:00), Eric Evans from Rackspace tells an audience that using Thrift and Avro is a bad idea. Instead, he advocates using the Idiomatic Client Libraries.

http://video.disruptivecode.com/video/840645/what-makes-cassandra-trick

We're primarily coding in PHP. How do we connect PHP with Cassandra without Thrift or Avro?

The Idiomatic Client Libraries that Eric mentions are:

  • Pelops, Hector (Java)
  • Pycassa (Python)
  • Cassandra (Ruby)
  • Others... which are the others?
Solution

  • Cassandra High Level Clients (The Cassandra wiki is a great place on earth)

    In your case I would recommend Tylers Hobb's phpcassa.