Urgent Description
It's really a shame that such a great project like Cassandra doesn't support a way for it to be used from within a C application.
Thrift has never worked for C or it is very poorly documented. Either way, integrating Cassandra with an application written in C is just not possible in an elegant manner at the current moment in time.
With the development of CQL, it would really be great if one could run CQL commands from within a C library, very much like libmysqlclient.