TL;DR

Cassaforte is a Clojure client for Apache Cassandra. 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.

2.0.0-rc2 is a release candidate for 2.0.

Changes between 2.0.0-rc1 and 2.0.0-rc2

Fixes Race Condition in Async Operations

Async database operations no longer suffer from a race condition between issueing them and definiting callbacks on the returned future value.

Contributed by Kirill Chernyshov.

Compression Option

:compression is a new option that can be used when connecting:

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

(let [s (client/connect ["127.0.0.1"] "my-keyspace" {:compression :snappy})]
  )

Valid compression values are:

• :snappy
• :lz4
• :none (or nil)

Contirbuted by Max Barnash (DataStax).

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.

About the Author

Michael on behalf of the ClojureWerkz Team.