DataStax Enterprise Python Driver
This is the documentation for the DataStax Enterprise Python Driver for DSE.
The driver supports DSE 4.7+ and Python 2.7, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5, and 3.6.
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
- Object Mapper
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Introduction to the integrated object mapper, cqlengine
- API Documentation
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The API documentation.
- Upgrading
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A guide to upgrading versions of the driver
- Execution Profiles (experimental)
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An introduction to a more flexible way of configuring request execution
- Performance Notes
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Tips for getting good performance.
- Paging Large Queries
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Notes on paging large query results
- Lightweight Transactions (Compare-and-set)
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Working with results of conditional requests
- User Defined Types
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Working with Cassandra 2.1’s user-defined types
- Security
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An overview of the security features of the driver
- Working with Dates and Times
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Some discussion on the driver’s approach to working with timestamp, date, time types
- Frequently Asked Questions
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A collection of Frequently Asked Questions
- DSE Authentication
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Example configuring DSE authentication
- DSE Geometry Types
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Working with DSE geometry types
- DSE Graph Queries
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Graph queries with DSE Graph
- 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 IRC. Connect to the #datastax-drivers channel on irc.freenode.net. If you don’t have an IRC client, you can use freenode’s web-based client.
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.