FAQs

1. How to bootstrap Achilles with Spring ?

   There is a Gist showing how to create a simple FactoryBean for Achilles ThriftEntityManager here: https://gist.github.com/doanduyhai/5008510

2. Can I use Achilles and Hibernate (or any JPA provider) at the same time ?

   Yes, but you need to remove all @Entity annotation on Achilles entities and use the @Table annotation instead. Indeed all Achilles entities having the @Entity annotation will be parsed by Hibernate and it will complain since the WideMap type is unknown and furthermore it cannot find any SQL table that map to your entities.

   Alternatively if you're using Spring, you can give a list of explicit entities to be scanned by Hibernate so in this case no issue

   If you're using Hibernate HBM files for mapping instead of annotations, it's also fine

3. Will Achilles support CQL3 ?

   Yes, in a very near future, as soon as the Java driver from Datastax will be available on a public Maven repo.

   There will be a CQL3EntityManager, with most of the features of ThriftEntityManager. There will still be some features mismatching because of the difference between the Thrift and CQL3 protocole but most of the core features will be there

4. How can I set custom consistency level for each entity/property

   The feature is the next to be implemented

5. Will there be any support for secondary index

   The feature is in the pipe, though having less priority than the CQL3EntityManager

6. Any support for property indexing & text search ?

   Technically possible by putting Lucence in the loop but lots of work to do. You're welcomed to help.