Life & fun · February 24, 2014
Newzly-phantom – Asynchronous type-safe Scala DSL for Cassandra
At newzly we use Cassandra for a variety of services. We loved Foursquare Rogue for MongoDB and we created a similar tool for Cassandra. Phantom is still in its early stages, but we look forward to your feedback and contributions!
Newzly-phantom – Asynchronous type-safe Scala DSL for Cassandra launched on February 24, 2014 with 16 votes, #550 of 1,100 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 12 years on.
In plain words
Phantom is a Scala domain-specific language for building type-safe, asynchronous queries against Cassandra databases. Designed for developers using Cassandra in production environments, it provides schema validation and reactive capabilities similar to Foursquare's Rogue tool for MongoDB. The project was created by Newzly to streamline database interactions while maintaining compile-time type safety.
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Schema safe, type-safe, reactive Scala driver for Cassandra/Datastax Enterprise - outworkers/phantom
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