DataStax Python Driver for Apache Cassandra
A modern, feature-rich and highly-tunable Python client library for Apache Cassandra (2.1+) using exclusively Cassandra's binary protocol and Cassandra Query Language v3.
The driver supports Python 2.7, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5, and 3.6.
If you require compatibility with DataStax Enterprise, use the DataStax Enterprise Python Driver.
Note: DataStax products do not support big-endian systems.
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Features
- Synchronous and Asynchronous APIs
- Simple, Prepared, and Batch statements
- Asynchronous IO, parallel execution, request pipelining
- Connection pooling
- Automatic node discovery
- Automatic reconnection
- Configurable load balancing and retry policies
- Concurrent execution utilities
- Object mapper
Installation
Installation through pip is recommended:
$ pip install cassandra-driver
For more complete installation instructions, see the installation guide.
Documentation
The documentation can be found online here.
A couple of links for getting up to speed:
Object Mapper
cqlengine (originally developed by Blake Eggleston and Jon Haddad, with contributions from the community) is now maintained as an integral part of this package. Refer to documentation here.
Contributing
See CONTRIBUTING.md.
Reporting Problems
Please report any bugs and make any feature requests on the JIRA issue tracker.
If you would like to contribute, please feel free to open a pull request.
Getting Help
Your best options for getting help with the driver are the
mailing list
and the #datastax-drivers channel in the DataStax Academy Slack.
License
Copyright 2013-2017 DataStax
Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at
http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License.
