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-beta8 is a development release that introduces a breaking public API change.

Changes between 2.0.0-beta7 and 2.0.0-beta8

2.0.0-beta8 introduces a major breaking API change.

Query DSL Taken From Hayt 2.0

Cassaforte no longer tries to support query condition DSLs for both Hayt 1.x and Hayt 2.0. Hayt 2.0 is the only supported flavour now and is the future.

Some examples of the changes:

;; before
(where :name "Alex")

;; after
(where [[= :name "Alex"]])
(where {:name "Alex"})


;; before
(where :name "Alex" :city "Munich")

;; after
(where [[= :name "Alex"]
        [= :city "Munich"]])
(where {:name "Alex" :city "Munich"})


;; before
(where :name "Alex" :age [> 25])

;; after
(where [[= :name "Alex"]
        [> :age  25]])

;; before
(where :name "Alex" :city [:in ["Munich" "Frankfurt"]])

;; after
(where [[= :name "Alex"]
        [:in :city ["Munich" "Frankfurt"]]])

As it’s easy to see, the new condition style closer resembles Clojure itself and thus was a reasonable decision on behalf of Hayt developers.

Changes between 2.0.0-beta5 and 2.0.0-beta7

Hayt Upgraded to 2.0

Hayt was upgraded to 2.0.

Changes between 2.0.0-beta4 and 2.0.0-beta5

clojurewerkz.cassandra.cql/iterate-table Now Terminates

clojurewerkz.cassandra.cql/iterate-table no longer produces an infinite sequence.

Keyspace as Option

It is now possible to choose keyspace via an option:

(ns cassaforte.docs
  (:require [clojurewerkz.cassaforte.client :as cc]))

(let [conn (cc/connect {:hosts ["127.0.0.1"] :keyspace "a-keyspace"})]
  )

Contributed 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.