NAME
    Net::Cassandra - Interface to Cassandra

SYNOPSIS
      my $cassandra = Net::Cassandra->new( hostname => 'localhost' );
      my $client    = $cassandra->client;

      my $key       = '123';
      my $timestamp = time;

      eval {
          $client->insert(
              'Keyspace1',
              $key,
              Net::Cassandra::Backend::ColumnPath->new(
                  { column_family => 'Standard1', column => 'name' }
              ),
              'Leon Brocard',
              $timestamp,
              Net::Cassandra::Backend::ConsistencyLevel::ZERO
          );
      };
      die $@->why if $@;

      eval {
          my $what = $client->get(
              'Keyspace1',
              $key,
              Net::Cassandra::Backend::ColumnPath->new(
                  { column_family => 'Standard1', column => 'name' }
              ),
              Net::Cassandra::Backend::ConsistencyLevel::QUORUM
          );
          my $value     = $what->column->value;
          my $timestamp = $what->column->timestamp;
          warn "$value / $timestamp";
      };
      die $@->why if $@;

      eval {
          $client->remove(
              'Keyspace1',
              $key,
              Net::Cassandra::Backend::ColumnPath->new(
                  { column_family => 'Standard1', column => 'name' }
              ),
              $timestamp
          );
      };
      die $@->why if $@;

DESCRIPTION
    This module provides an interface the to Cassandra distributed database.
    It uses the Thrift interface. This is changing rapidly and supports
    version 0.5.0 of Cassandra.

AUTHOR
    Leon Brocard <acme@astray.com>.

COPYRIGHT
    Copyright (C) 2009-2010, Leon Brocard

LICENSE
    This module is free software; you can redistribute it or modify it under
    the same terms as Perl itself.

