Read and Write with Cassandra in Vb.Net

This is a first example of application in vb.net that write and read datas using Cassandra and HectorSharp interface(http://hectorsharp.com/). Just download HectorSharp and compile it to create libraries for your project. Obviously, we need to create a referenco to the HectorSharp library in our project before we can use it.

In this example we use the default keyspace of Cassandra (Keyspace1) and also a default Cassandta column family (Standard1).

We'll create a column called "MyColumn" in the column family and we'll put in a value.

For this purpose, we'll use a Web Application with label, called “lbltest”, where we'll show data picked from Cassandra.

Imports HectorSharp

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'db connection
Dim cf As New KeyedCassandraClientFactory(New CassandraClientPoolFactory().Create(), _

New KeyedCassandraClientFactory.Config())
Dim client = cf.Make(New Endpoint("localhost", 9160))

'db definition (keyspace)
Dim keyspace = client.GetKeyspace("Keyspace1")

'Dim path = New ColumnPath(columnfamily name, supercolumn name (if present), column name)
Dim path = New ColumnPath("Standard1", "", "MyColumn")

'insert a value in db
keyspace.Insert("0", path, "My new value")

'get the value
Dim column As Column = keyspace.GetColumn("0", path)

lbltest.Text = column.Value

How you can see, working with Cassandra using HectorSharp is really simple.