DataStax C/C++ Driver for Apache Cassandra®

Table 1. Icon legend
Icon	Description
	Fully compatible
	Partially compatible
	Incompatible

New features and bug fixes are developed on the latest minor version of the driver, and users are encouraged to stay current with those minor releases. APIs are maintained stable according to semantic versioning conventions, and upgrades should be trivial.

Driver version	Apache Cassandra version	DataStax Enterprise version	DataStax Astra
Version	3.0+	2.2	2.1	6.8	6.7	6.0	5.1	5.0	Cloud
2.15+				⁴	⁴	⁴	⁴
2.14				¹	¹	¹	¹	¹
2.3+				¹	¹	¹	¹	¹
2.2.2+	²			²	²	²	²	²
2.1+
1.0+			³

Driver version

Apache Cassandra version

DataStax Enterprise version

DataStax Astra

Version

3.0+

2.2

2.1

6.8

6.7

6.0

5.1

5.0

Cloud

2.15+

iconFullyCompatible

iconFullyCompatible ⁴

iconFullyCompatible

2.14

iconFullyCompatible

iconPartiallyCompatible ¹

iconFullyCompatible

2.3+

iconFullyCompatible

iconPartiallyCompatible ¹

iconIncompatible

2.2.2+

iconPartiallyCompatible ²

iconFullyCompatible

iconPartiallyCompatible ²

iconIncompatible

2.1+

iconIncompatible

iconFullyCompatible

iconIncompatible

1.0+

iconIncompatible

iconPartiallyCompatible ³

iconIncompatible

¹Earlier versions of DataStax Cassandra drivers did not have full support of DSE features.

²Driver is incompatible with Cassandra 1.0. Although it can execute requests, metadata is broken.

³Limited to the Cassandra 2.0 API.

⁴No DataStax Graph support (legacy Graph only).

For details about the end-of-life DataStax Enterprise C/C++ Driver, see EOL Drivers.