RESTBase table storage on Cassandra

Provides a high-level table storage service abstraction similar to Amazon DynamoDB or Google DataStore, with a Cassandra backend. See the design docs for details and background.

This is the default table storage backend for RESTBase, and automatically installed as an npm module dependency (restbase-cassandra). See the install instructions there.

Issue tracking

We use Phabricator to track issues. See the list of current issues in RESTBase-cassandra.

Status

Preparing for production.

Features:

• basic table storage service with REST interface, backed by Cassandra
• multi-tenant design: domain creation, prepared for per-domain ACLs
• table creation with declarative JSON schemas
• secondary index creation and basic maintenance
• data insertion and retrieval by primary key, including range queries

Next steps

• More refined secondary index implementation
  • range queries on secondary indexes
• Refine HTTP interface & response formats, especially paging
• Authentication (OAuth2 / JWT / JWS / auth service callbacks) and ACLs
• Transactions: light-weight CAS and 2PC
• Get ready for production: robustness, performance, logging
• Basic schema evolution support

Contributors

• Gabriel Wicke [email protected]
• Hardik Juneja [email protected]