Using different client APIs to access Cassandra

Now that we are acquainted with Cassandra, let's move on to the next step where we will access (insert or update) data into the cluster programmatically. In general, the APIs we are talking about are wrappers written over the core Thrift API, which offers various CRUD operations over the Cassandra cluster using programmer-friendly packages.

The client APIs that are used to access Cassandra are as follows:

• Thrift protocol: The most basic of all APIs to access Cassandra is the Remote Procedure Call (RPC) protocol, which provides a language-neutral interface and thus exposes flexibility to communicate using Python, Java, and so on. Please note that almost all other APIs we'll discuss use Thrift under the hood. It is simple to use and it provides basic functionality out of the box like ring discovery and native access. Complex features such as retry, connection pooling, and so on are not supported out of the box. However, there are a variety of...