Cascket: A binary protocol based c client-driver for Apache Cassandra

Few can deny the diverse applications of NoSQL Database technology today. The last decade has witnessed an exponential rise in not only data generation but also in the manipulation and management of the same. NoSQL Technologies have engendered a new platform for large enterprises to come up and have provided them a wide vista for data manipulation. Moreover, existing technologies have been augmented with the unique features that this technology offers. Apache Cassandra is one of the leading NoSQL Databases today. The rise of Cassandra has also given rise to corresponding high level client drivers. There are several drivers present today for interfacing Cassandra with languages such as PHP, Java, C++, etc. However, to the best of our knowledge, no such driver for C exists. This paper proposes such a driver, `Cascket´ that allows direct communication of Cassandra over C without the existence of a middle-ware.