DSE and OSS drivers unified under single DataStax driver
As of the 3.21.0 release of the Datastax Python Driver for Apache Cassandra® (OSS Driver), the Datastax Enterprise Python Driver (DSE driver) functionality has been merged into this single, DataStax driver. Please refer to the blog post for more information on this change.
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, 3.6 and 3.7.
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 Apollo
- 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.
- CHANGELOG
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Log of changes to the driver, organized by version.
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.
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.