Phpcassa or SimpleCassie?

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To speak with Cassandra do I utilize both or one or the other?

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Given this advice by Dave, who rocks, I’d say neither.

http://www.davegardner.me.uk/blog/2010/07/02/php-and-cassandra/

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Many in the Cassandra community recommend using a high level client (such as the two listed above):

http://www.datastax.com/docs/0.7/api/high_level_clients

I started out using raw Thrift, which I still think is a useful way of understanding the actual Cassandra API. That said, if you’re starting out now you are probably best off with phpcassa.

http://wiki.apache.org/cassandra/ClientOptions

Dave