Python Cassandra Driver¶
A Python client driver for Apache Cassandra. This driver works exclusively with the Cassandra Query Language v3 (CQL3) and Cassandra’s native protocol. Cassandra 2.1+ is supported.
The driver supports Python 2.7, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5, and 3.6.
This driver is open source under the Apache v2 License. The source code for this driver can be found on GitHub.
Note: DataStax products do not support big-endian systems.
Contents¶
- Installation
- How to install the driver.
- Getting Started
- A guide through the first steps of connecting to Cassandra and executing queries
- Object Mapper
- Introduction to the integrated object mapper, cqlengine
- API Documentation
- The API documentation.
- Upgrading
- A guide to upgrading versions of the driver
- Execution Profiles
- An introduction to a more flexible way of configuring request execution
- Performance Notes
- Tips for getting good performance.
- Paging Large Queries
- Notes on paging large query results
- Lightweight Transactions (Compare-and-set)
- Working with results of conditional requests
- User Defined Types
- Working with Cassandra 2.1’s user-defined types
- Security
- An overview of the security features of the driver
- Working with Dates and Times
- Some discussion on the driver’s approach to working with timestamp, date, time types
- Frequently Asked Questions
- A collection of Frequently Asked Questions
Getting Help¶
Visit the FAQ section in this documentation.
Please send questions to the mailing list.
Alternatively, you can use the #datastax-drivers channel in the DataStax Acadamy Slack to ask questions in real time.