Cassandra Golang Driver and Support

[Yawei Li <ya...@gmail.com>]

Hi,

It looks like to me that DataStax doesn't provide official golang driver
yet and the goland client libs are overall lagging behind the Java driver
in terms of feature set, supported version and possibly production
stability?

We are going to support a large number of services  in both Java and Go. if
the above impression is largely true, we are considering the option of
focusing on Java client and having GoLang program talk to the Java service
via RPC for data access. Anyone has tried similar approach?

Thanks

Re: Cassandra Golang Driver and Support

[Dan Kinder <dk...@turnitin.com>]

Just want to put a plug in for gocql and the guys who work on it. I use it
for production applications that sustain ~10,000 writes/sec on an 8 node
cluster and in the few times I have seen problems they have been responsive
on issues and pull requests. Once or twice I have seen the API change but
otherwise it has been stable. In general I have found it very intuitive to
use and easy to configure.

On Thu, Apr 14, 2016 at 2:30 PM, Yawei Li <ya...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks for the info, Bryan!
> We are in general assess the support level of GoCQL v.s Java Driver. From
> http://gocql.github.io/, looks like it is a WIP (some TODO items, api is
> subject to change)? And https://github.com/gocql/gocql suggests the
> performance may degrade now and then, and the supported versions are up to
> 2.2.x? For us maintaining two stacks (Java and Go) may be expensive so I am
> checking what's the general strategy folks are using here.
>
> On Wed, Apr 13, 2016 at 11:31 AM, Bryan Cheng <br...@blockcypher.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi Yawei,
>>
>> While you're right that there's no first-party driver, we've had good
>> luck using gocql (https://github.com/gocql/gocql) in production at
>> moderate scale. What features in particular are you looking for that are
>> missing?
>>
>> --Bryan
>>
>> On Tue, Apr 12, 2016 at 10:06 PM, Yawei Li <ya...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> It looks like to me that DataStax doesn't provide official golang driver
>>> yet and the goland client libs are overall lagging behind the Java driver
>>> in terms of feature set, supported version and possibly production
>>> stability?
>>>
>>> We are going to support a large number of services  in both Java and Go.
>>> if the above impression is largely true, we are considering the option of
>>> focusing on Java client and having GoLang program talk to the Java service
>>> via RPC for data access. Anyone has tried similar approach?
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>>
>>
>>

Re: Cassandra Golang Driver and Support

[Yawei Li <ya...@gmail.com>]

Thanks for the info, Bryan!
We are in general assess the support level of GoCQL v.s Java Driver. From
http://gocql.github.io/, looks like it is a WIP (some TODO items, api is
subject to change)? And https://github.com/gocql/gocql suggests the
performance may degrade now and then, and the supported versions are up to
2.2.x? For us maintaining two stacks (Java and Go) may be expensive so I am
checking what's the general strategy folks are using here.

On Wed, Apr 13, 2016 at 11:31 AM, Bryan Cheng <br...@blockcypher.com> wrote:

> Hi Yawei,
>
> While you're right that there's no first-party driver, we've had good luck
> using gocql (https://github.com/gocql/gocql) in production at moderate
> scale. What features in particular are you looking for that are missing?
>
> --Bryan
>
> On Tue, Apr 12, 2016 at 10:06 PM, Yawei Li <ya...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> It looks like to me that DataStax doesn't provide official golang driver
>> yet and the goland client libs are overall lagging behind the Java driver
>> in terms of feature set, supported version and possibly production
>> stability?
>>
>> We are going to support a large number of services  in both Java and Go.
>> if the above impression is largely true, we are considering the option of
>> focusing on Java client and having GoLang program talk to the Java service
>> via RPC for data access. Anyone has tried similar approach?
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>
>

Re: Cassandra Golang Driver and Support

[Bryan Cheng <br...@blockcypher.com>]

Hi Yawei,

While you're right that there's no first-party driver, we've had good luck
using gocql (https://github.com/gocql/gocql) in production at moderate
scale. What features in particular are you looking for that are missing?

--Bryan

On Tue, Apr 12, 2016 at 10:06 PM, Yawei Li <ya...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> It looks like to me that DataStax doesn't provide official golang driver
> yet and the goland client libs are overall lagging behind the Java driver
> in terms of feature set, supported version and possibly production
> stability?
>
> We are going to support a large number of services  in both Java and Go.
> if the above impression is largely true, we are considering the option of
> focusing on Java client and having GoLang program talk to the Java service
> via RPC for data access. Anyone has tried similar approach?
>
> Thanks
>