Roadmap

Version highlights and upcoming features

• 1.8.0: A new QueryBuilder, written from the ground up, in idiomatic Scala
• 1.8.0: Added support for type-safe ALTER queries
• 1.8.0: Support for advanced CQL options
• 1.9.0: Type safe prepared statements
• 1.9.0: Automated Schema migrations
• 2.0.0: Type safe user defined types
• Breaking changes in DSL and connectors
  • A new import structure
  • Propagating parse errors
• 1.9.0: Automated table creations
• 1.9.0: Automated table truncation.
• 1.9.0: Big performance improvements

While dates are not fixed, we will use this list to tell you about our plans for the future. If you have great ideas about what could benefit all phantom adopters, please get in touch. We are very happy and eager to listen.

• User defined types

We are working closely around the latest features in the Datastax Java driver and Apache Cassandra 2.1 to offer a fully type safe DSL for user defined types. This feature is well in progress and you can expect to see it live roughly at the same time as the release of the Datastax 2.1 driver, planned for July 2014.

Some of the cool features include automatic schema generation, fully type safe referencing of fields and inner members of UDTs and fully type safe querying.

• Spark integration

Thanks to the recent partnership between Databricks and Datastax, Spark is getting a Cassandra facelift with a Datastax backed integration. We won't be slow to follow up with a type safe Scala variant of that integration, so you can enjoy the benefits of high power computation with Cassandra as a backup storage through the simple high power DSL we've gotten you used to.

• Prepared statements

By popular demand, a feature long overdue in phantom. The main reason is the underlying Java driver and the increased difficulty of guaranteeing type safety with prepared statements along with a nice DSL to get things done. Not to say it's impossible, this will be released after the new query builder emerges.

• A new QueryBuilder(available as of 1.6.0)

• Zookeeper support(available as of 1.1.0).