DataStax Python Driver for Apache Cassandra®
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, including DSE 4.7+.
The driver supports Python 3.7 and 3.8.
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
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How to install the driver.
- Getting Started
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A guide through the first steps of connecting to Cassandra and executing queries
- Execution Profiles
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An introduction to a more flexible way of configuring request execution
- Lightweight Transactions (Compare-and-set)
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Working with results of conditional requests
- Object Mapper
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Introduction to the integrated object mapper, cqlengine
- Performance Notes
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Tips for getting good performance.
- Paging Large Queries
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Notes on paging large query results
- Security
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An overview of the security features of the driver
- Upgrading
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A guide to upgrading versions of the driver
- User Defined Types
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Working with Cassandra 2.1’s user-defined types
- Working with Dates and Times
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Some discussion on the driver’s approach to working with timestamp, date, time types
- Cloud
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A guide to connecting to Datastax Astra
- Column Encryption
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Transparent client-side per-column encryption and decryption
- DSE Geometry Types
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Working with DSE geometry types
- DataStax Graph Queries
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Graph queries with the Core engine
- DataStax Classic Graph Queries
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Graph queries with the Classic engine
- DataStax Graph Fluent API
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DataStax Graph Fluent API
- CHANGELOG
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Log of changes to the driver, organized by version.
- Frequently Asked Questions
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A collection of Frequently Asked Questions
- API Documentation
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The API documentation.
Getting Help
Visit the FAQ section in this documentation.
Please send questions to the mailing list.
Alternatively, you can use the DataStax Community.
Reporting Issues
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.