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    <h1>Cassaforte</h1>

    <p>A young Clojure client for Apache Cassandra 1.2+.</p>
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        <a href='https://clojars.org/clojurewerkz/cassaforte'>Current Version: 1.0.0</a>
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        <h2>Feature complete</h2>
        <p>Connect to Cassandra cluster, manipulate wide rows via thrift interface, use latest CQL features via new shiny native CQL client interface.</p>
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        <h2>Battle-tested</h2>
        <p>Built out of necessity to have a complete, stable, easy-to-use and understand client, that doesn't hide internals and allows to operate in high and low-level abstractions.</p>
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        <h2>Batteries Included</h2>
        <p>Additional bells and whistles to make your life easier, within reason.</p>
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        <h2>Cassandra 1.2+</h2>
        <p>Support for features like lists, sets, maps, composite keys, indexing, and range queries.</p>
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        <h2>CQL 3</h2>
        <p>Party like it's 3.0: awesome CQL features, waiting for you to use them.</p>
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        <h2>Intuitive</h2>
        <p>API is as close as possible to the actual DB operations. No abstractions uncalled for.</p>
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