Bob, I know that. and Facebook uses Thrift which is now part of Apache incubator project. I may need to deal with some large data set with Cassandra database, w

Bob, I know that. and Facebook uses Thrift which is now part of Apache incubator project. I may need to deal with some large data set with Cassandra database, which communicates with external programs in Thrift format messages. As a side note, I hope Google will finish real time search api soon and open the firehose :-)