Sets the compression to use.

Note that while this setting can be changed at any time, it will only apply to newly created connections.

Sets a custom compressor to be used for the compression type. If specified, the compression type is mandatory. If not specified the driver default compressor will be use for the compression type.

Sets the maximum protocol version to be used. When set, it limits the maximum protocol version used to connect to the nodes. Useful for using the driver against a cluster that contains nodes with different major/minor versions of Cassandra.

Sets the maximum time to wait for schema agreement before returning from a DDL query.