TL;DR

Cassaforte is a Clojure client for Apache Cassandra 1.2+. It is built around CQL 3 and focuses on ease of use. You will likely find that using Cassandra from Clojure has never been so easy.

1.3.0-beta2 is a milestone release that upgrades Hayt which contains a slew of bug fixes.

Changes between Cassaforte 1.3.0-beta1 and 1.3.0-beta2

Hayt Update

Hayt dependency has been updated to 1.4.1, which supports if-not-exists in create-keyspace:

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(create-keyspace "main"
           (if-not-exists)
           (with {:replication
                    {:class "SimpleStrategy"
                     :replication_factor 1 }}))

Thank You, Contributors

Kudos to Max Penet for contributing to this release.

News and Updates

New releases and updates are announced on Twitter. Cassaforte also has a mailing list, feel free to ask questions and report issues there.

Cassaforte is a ClojureWerkz Project

Cassaforte is part of the group of libraries known as ClojureWerkz, together with

• Langohr, a Clojure client for RabbitMQ that embraces the AMQP 0.9.1 model
• Monger, a Clojure MongoDB client for a more civilized age
• Elastisch, a minimalistic Clojure client for ElasticSearch
• EEP, a Clojure library for stream (event) processing
• Neocons, a Clojure client for the Neo4J REST API
• Quartzite, a powerful scheduling library

and several others. If you like Cassaforte, you may also like our other projects.

Let us know what you think on Twitter or on the Clojure mailing list.

Michael on behalf of the ClojureWerkz Team.