title: Hector vs Astyanax for Cassandra
body: <p>We are starting a new java web-project with Cassandra as the database. The team is very well-experienced with RDBMS/JPA/Hibernate/Spring but very new to the world of NoSQL. We want to start the development with as simple setup as possible.
  <a href="http://rantav.github.com/hector/build/html/index.html#" rel="noreferrer">Hector</a> seems to be the most preferred and popular choice for connecting to Cassandra. But, Netflix has recently offered <a href="https://github.com/Netflix/astyanax/wiki" rel="noreferrer">Astyanax</a>, which has its origins in Hector.
  Can anyone who has used both these technologies share their experiences? I am looking for easy setup, good documentation and simple/clean usage.
  Suggestions about other api's are also welcome.</p>