Love Cassandra? Love REST?
Wish you could have both at the same time?
Now you can.
After much discussion, I'm happy to announce the birth of a new project, Virgil. The project will provide a GUI and a services layer on top of Cassandra, exposing data and services via REST.
Virgil already has a REST layer for CRUD operations against keyspaces, column families, and data. We hope to quickly add Pig/Hadoop support via REST as well as a thin, javascript-based GUI that uses the REST services.
How can you help nurture the baby?
Head over to Apache Extras,
http://code.google.com/a/apache-extras.org/p/virgil/
Star the project, and then get involved.
Grab the source code and give it a try.
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4 comments:
This looks very interesting to me. I hate Thrift and CQL on top of thrift is just a PITA. I read all the jijra messages around "is there interest or not?". It seems to me that if you want to create interest you need to post binary packages. I'm not a java guy and the prospect of figuring out how to compile a patched version of casandra is not appealing. As it stands the lack of interest is perhaps a self-fulfilling prophecy. Cheers and thanks for creating this project!
Thanks for the feedback Thorsten. I just posted binary packages.
Please give it a try.
Yeah very interesting - ill grab the code and try it out would be interested in getting involved as well.
You can only stick the Cassandra Cli for so long ;)
James
eggsy84, thanks. we're still a young project looking for all the help we can get. ;)
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