Understanding How CQL3 Maps to Cassandra's Internal Data StructureCQL3 is the newly ordained, canonical, and best-practices means of interacting with Cassandra. Indeed, the Apache Cassandra documentation itself declares that the Thrift API as “legacy” and recommends that CQL3 be used instead. But I’ve heard several people express their concern over the added layer of abstraction. There seems to be an uncertainty about what’s really happening inside of Cassandra.
