phpcassa usual query methods or cql queries?

Question

Can you recommend what methods of queries to choose?Cql or usual classes? Phpcassa has both methods.cql is more comfortable than usual.but what will be efficiently?

Answer 1

So far, the evidence is that CQL is as fast or faster than the older RPC-based API. (See comments on https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-2500, for example.)