Kundera no more relies on Solandra for indexing approach. It enables you now to use secondary indexing support provided by Cassandra and as well as it gives you a way to run jpa queries over OPP (like range queries etc). We are working to enable native CQL support.
Take a look at:
http://mevivs.wordpress.com/2012/02/13/how-to-crud-and-jpa-association-handling-using-kundera/
for more details.
-Vivek
