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.

Note: DataStax products do not support big-endian systems.

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: 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.
CHANGELOG: 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.

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.