phpcassa usual query methods or cql queries?

Can you recommend what methods of queries to choose?Cql or usual classes? Phpcassa has both methods.cql is more comfortable than usual.but what wi开发者_JAVA技巧ll be efficiently?

So far, the evidence is that CQL is as fast or faster than the older RPC-based API. (See comments on https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-2500, for example.)