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

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 (experimental)

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

DSE Authentication

Example configuring DSE authentication

DSE Geometry Types

Working with DSE geometry types

DSE Graph Queries

Graph queries with DSE Graph

API Documentation

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.