[pfarnsworth]

As a recent user of Cassandra, I found exactly this to be a huge problem. Any type of googling would return too many different terms, and the relevance or context were completely missing so I was confused for a while, until I realized that the terms changed. The unintended consequence of such a quick change in terminology is that it makes for a very hard experience for newbies.

[jjirsa]

It's not really that quick of a change - it's been in flight for something like 4 years? Maybe 5? And thrift is still supported until 4.0, so you can use the old style for quite some time.