Purpose:

A simple DataNucleus plugin for Java object persistence in Cassandra 0.6.x. For 0.7.x support checkTodd's version.

This is not currently supported as you may guess, for the official version go to:
https://github.com/datanucleus/datanucleus-cassandra

About:

The current status is as follows:

• It allows persistence of simple attributes, one-to-one relations, one-to-many and many-to-many relations through collections and maps.

• It creates a datanucleus.schema every time some element is missing in Cassandra schema, until Cassandra allows dynamic changes to it.

• It works with Cassandra-0.6.x, under Thrift interface. Data-store code isolation will be improved however, to allow other versions to be used.

• Basic schema creation tool(beta). Schema creation

• It supports multiple indexes on each class, here each can only contain one field.

• It now supports basic JDOQL queries with support to ranges and searches based on indexed fields. Usages

Compiling

To build the plugin place the following libs in a folder named lib:

• apache-cassandra-0.6.1.jar
  
• libthrift-r917130.jar
  
• datanucleus-core-2.1.0-m2.jar (*)

Then type ant or ant dist.

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(*) Due to API issues, I chose to use the new core version of datanucleus, this however demands that you compile and generate a jar for the new JDO API, when using the plugin. Sources under: JDO2-api

Sample code

Get the JDO sample in Datanucleus at:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/datanucleus/files/

Then:

• Alter the JDOQL tests from Main.java, as for now, only simple ranges are supported(read/delete) and searches based on single indexed fields.
  

• Define the primary key for each class, as the native strategy is not supported (use for example @PrimaryKey annotations in the classes).
  

• In the datanucleus.properties add/edit:

  javax.jdo.option.ConnectionURL=cassandra:ORMTest://localhost:9160 (*) datanucleus.cassandra.replicaPlacementStrategy=org.apache.cassandra.locator.RackUnawareStrategy (+)
  datanucleus.cassandra.replicationFactor=1 (+)
  datanucleus.cassandra.endPointSnitch = org.apache.cassandra.locator.EndPointSnitch (+)
  datanucleus.metadata.validate=false datanucleus.autoCreateSchema=true

• Run the sample according to the original instructions.

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(*)The connection URL follows the pattern: cassandra:keySpace://hostaname:port,hostname:port,... cassandra:keySpace://hostname:port,ring:default_port can also be used, where the plugin is responsible for the discover of other nodes using the default port.
(+)Used to generate the schema, that for now is only the generation of a file as said above.

Feedback

Updated source and an issue tracker are available at:

http://github.com/PedroGomes/datanucleus-cassandra

Your feedback is welcome.