Which Cassandra PHP Client supports CompositeTypes and Comparators?

Question

I am looking for a PHP Client for Cassandra that supports CompositeType and also creation and modification of ColumnFamilies/Keyspace (schema). Haven't found any that support CompositeType.

Please help. Any workaround to circumvent this issue?

Thank you.

Update:

As suggested by Tamil I am using the following statement to create the column family in cassandra-cli .

CREATE COLUMN FAMILY User
with comparator = 'CompositeType(UTF8Type,UTF8Type,UTF8Type)'
and key_validation_class = 'UTF8Type'
and default_validation_class = 'UTF8Type';    

Now using pycassa I am using the following update statement to insert row.

UPDATE User set
'meta:fullname:none' = 'Praveen Baratam'
where
KEY = 'praveen';

UPDATE User set
'meta:using:none' = 'cassandra'
where
KEY = 'praveen';

UPDATE User set
'meta:location:none' = 'India'
where
KEY = 'praveen';

Subsequently I am doing a range-slice query using the following statements.

SELECT 'meta'..'zeta' from User where KEY = 'praveen';

SELECT 'meta:a'..'meta:z' from User where KEY = 'praveen';

Thanks a lot to Tamil for this work-around till CQL supports CompositeType in Cassandra 1.1.

Answer 1

@Praveen, You can use phpcassa & cql to work around with composite types. Although either phpcassa or cql doesn't support composite types it works for me.

Ex:

$servers = array('127.0.0.1:9160');
$pool = new ConnectionPool("Stats",$servers);
$raw = $pool->get();
$rows = $raw->client->execute_cql_query("SELECT 'a:b' from TestColumnFamily WHERE KEY='xxx:1'", cassandra_Compression::NONE);

But you have to sanitize the content returned because this might hexstring.

Check out this if you have problems using phpcassa cql

The above answer is outdated PHPCassa 1.0.a.1 has a full support for composites check out this blog post