RESTBase table storage on Cassandra

Provides a high-level table storage service abstraction similar to Amazon
DynamoDB or Google DataStore, with a Cassandra backend. See the design
docs for
details and background.

This is the default table storage backend for
RESTBase, and automatically installed as
an npm module dependency (restbase-cassandra). See the install instructions
there.

Issue tracking

We use Phabricator to track
issues. See the list of current issues in RESTBase-cassandra.

Status

Preparing for production.


Features:
- basic table storage service with REST interface, backed by Cassandra
- multi-tenant design: domain creation, prepared for per-domain ACLs
- table creation with declarative JSON schemas
- secondary index creation and basic maintenance
- data insertion and retrieval by primary key, including range queries

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- More refined secondary
index
implementation
- range queries on secondary indexes
- Refine HTTP interface & response formats, especially paging
- Authentication (OAuth2 / JWT / JWS / auth service callbacks) and ACLs
- Transactions:
light-weight CAS and 2PC
- Get ready for production: robustness, performance, logging
- Basic schema evolution support

Contributors

* Gabriel Wicke
* Hardik Juneja