Is there a Thrift or Cassandra client for Node.js/JavaScript

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I would like to start using Cassandra with a node.js deployment, but I can't find a Thrift or Cassandra client for Node.js and/or JavaScript.

Is there one?

Is there a simple means of generating Thrift connections?

Update: The short answer to this question turns out to be no, there is no JS client for Thrift that is compatible with Cassandra.

Further Update: The next release of Cassandra (0.8 at time of writing) is going to have support for an Avro API. There is already node.js module for Avro support.

Zanson · Accepted Answer · 2014-10-10T18:01:36.547

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Someone made one now: https://github.com/wadey/node-thrift

Update: Rackspace released a node cassandra api:
http://code.google.com/a/apache-extras.org/p/cassandra-node/

Update: They moved it to github:
https://github.com/racker/node-cassandra-client

Update: There is a CQL driver now too:
https://github.com/simplereach/helenus

Update: There is a CQL driver, that uses the Cassandra native protocol https://github.com/jorgebay/node-cassandra-cql

Update: DataStax released a CQL driver for Cassandra using the native protocol: https://github.com/datastax/nodejs-driver

edited Oct 10 '14 at 18:01

answered Feb 07 '11 at 19:48

Zanson

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But how do you use it. Fails for me.. :( saying.. "key" has no write method :( – Arenstar Mar 29 '11 at 21:11
The docs aren't good, but take a look at the unit test, they helped me. – Ben Dec 09 '12 at 13:27

Schildmeijer · Answer 2 · 2011-05-18T18:26:01.000

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https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/THRIFT-550

edit: take a look at https://github.com/wadey/node-thrift

edited May 18 '11 at 18:26

answered Jun 01 '10 at 06:00

Schildmeijer

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which is to say, it's in thrift trunk and will be in the upcoming thrift 0.3 release. – jbellis Jun 01 '10 at 15:10
Cheers. I actually found this one last night and started hacking it to work with node.js – Toby Hede Jun 02 '10 at 00:42
Will still need to bui8ld a Cassandra lib on top of this, but it's a great start. – Toby Hede Jun 02 '10 at 00:42
Perhaps you guys could clarify this: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2955651/thrift-js-compatibility-with-cassandra-json-protocol :P – Toby Hede Jun 02 '10 at 07:29

score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Aug 30 '12 at 02:01

Zanson already mentioned that Rackspace released the Cassandra API for Node.js, but it's worth noting that their Google Code page isn't their primary base of operations. The github page is where you can stay the most up to date:

https://github.com/racker/node-cassandra-client

score 1 · Answer 4 · answered Oct 09 '14 at 20:50

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The official Datastax driver is now node-cassandra-cql rebranded to nodejs-driver:

https://github.com/datastax/nodejs-driver

It uses CQL3.

answered Oct 09 '14 at 20:50

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