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-beta5 is a milestone release that upgrades Cassandra Java driver and introduces a minor feature.

Changes between 1.3.0-beta2 and 1.3.0-beta5

Cassandra Java Driver Update

Cassandra Java driver has been updated to 2.0.0-rc2.

UUID Generation Helpers

clojurewerkz.cassaforte.uuids is a new namespace that provides UUID generation helpers:

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(require '[clojurewerkz.cassaforte.uuids :as uuids])

(uuids/random)
;= #uuid "d43fdc16-a9c3-4d0f-8809-512115289537"

(uuids/time-based)
;= #uuid "90cf6f40-4584-11e3-90c2-65c7571b1a52"

(uuids/unix-timestamp (uuids/time-based))
;= 1383592179743

(u/start-of (u/unix-timestamp (u/time-based)))
;= #uuid "ad1fd130-4584-11e3-8080-808080808080"

(u/end-of (u/unix-timestamp (u/time-based)))
;= #uuid "b31abb3f-4584-11e3-7f7f-7f7f7f7f7f7f"

Full change log is available on GitHub.

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.

About the Author

Michael on behalf of the ClojureWerkz Team.