astyanaxCassandra 的 Java 客户端包

astyanax 是一个 Cassandra 的 Java 客户端开发包。Netflix 目前正在使用的就是这个客户端。

主要特性：

• High level, simple object oriented interface to Cassandra.
• Fail-over behavior on the client side.
• Connection pool abstraction. Implementation of a round robin connection pool.
• Monitoring abstraction to get event notification from the connection pool.
• Complete encapsulation of the underlying Thrift API and structs.
• Automatic retry of downed hosts.
• Automatic discovery of additional hosts in the cluster.
• Suspension of hosts for a short period of time after several timeouts.
• Annotations to simplify use of composite columns.