A high level cassandra java client. Cassandra is a highly available column oriented database: http://incubator.apache.org/cassandra/ Hector is the greatest warrior in the greek mithology, Troy's builder and brother of Cassandra http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hector http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cassandra This client provides: o high level, simple object oriented interface to cassandra o failover behavior on the client side o connection pooling for improved performance and scalability o JMX conters for monitoring and management o load balancing The work was initially inspired by http://code.google.com/p/cassandra-java-client/ but has taken off to different directions since.