cql-rb v1.2.0 released

cql-rb, the Cassandra driver for Ruby, just reached v1.2.0 and is now feature complete with respect to the v1 of the CQL binary protocol.

It’s been about a year since I set out to build a new, high performance, Ruby driver for Cassandra. v1.0 was released eight months ago and was about delivering the bare necessities with great performance. v1.1 followed a few months later and had everything you could expect from a driver for a distributed database. v1.2 is a tiny release in comparison to those two, but wraps up the feature set with support for request tracing and compression.

The the goal posts always move, as it were. Cassandra 2.0 came out in September with lots of new features. The next release of cql-rb, besides bug fixes and performance improvements, will also be 2.0. We’ll have to see if Cassandra 2.1 comes out before, but the idea is not to have synchronized version numbers, I just think that it will be a significant number of changes and new features and a major release seems appropriate.

The plan is to do a release with support for all of the features of v2 of the CQL binary protocol, including batching, bound variables for non-prepared statements, result set paging, and support for SASL authentication. The new version also opens up some great new optimization possibilities. Keep a look out for the prereleases, but if you can’t wait you can peek at the protocol_v2 branch, which already has some of the features mentioned.