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[Cassandra Wiki] Update of "API" by JonathanEllis
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link GettingStarted and fix DS docs link
== CQL ==
- The preferred interface to Cassandra 1.2 and 2.0 is CQL. !DataStax has documentation for [[javascript:void(0);/*1368935502273*/|CQL and cqlsh]], and the language grammar is [[http://cassandra.apache.org/doc/cql3/CQL.html|here]].
+ The preferred interface to Cassandra 1.2 and 2.0 is CQL. There is a quick introduction in GettingStarted and [[http://www.datastax.com/documentation/cql/3.1/webhelp/index.html|full documentation by DataStax]].
- To use CQL you should also understand [[http://www.datastax.com/docs/1.2/ddl/index|Cassandra data modeling]].
+ To use CQL effectively you should also understand [[http://www.datastax.com/docs/1.2/ddl/index|Cassandra data modeling]].
- If you plan to write a [[ClientOptions|CQL client]], you should also read about the communication [[https://github.com/apache/cassandra/blob/cassandra-1.2/doc/native_protocol.spec|protocol specification]].
+ If you plan to write a [[ClientOptions|CQL client]], you should also read about the communication [[https://github.com/apache/cassandra/blob/cassandra-1.2/doc/native_protocol.spec|protocol specification]]. Clients do not need to parse CQL, so you shouldn't need to know the details of the [[http://cassandra.apache.org/doc/cql3/CQL.html|antlr grammar]]
== Thrift ==
You can read about the legacy Thrift RPC API [[API10|here]].