Overview of supported DataStax drivers

This topic provides an overview of supported DataStax drivers for open-source Apache Cassandra®, DataStax Enterprise (DSE), Hyper-Converged Database (HCD), and Astra DB.

Except as noted below, DataStax officially supports the last twelve months of releases.

Connecting your application to Astra DB might cause connection issues depending on the driver you choose. Although third-party open-source drivers, such as GoCQL, are supported, DataStax strongly recommends using native Astra drivers or DataStax CQL drivers. Third-party open-source drivers might lack features that harden the driver against IP address changes of the coordinators, which can cause frequent connection issues. Connections using third-party open-source drivers, such as GoCQL, over private links with or without custom domains are not officially supported by DataStax.

For more information, see the DataStax Support Policy.

Version compatibility

DataStax drivers work exclusively with the Cassandra Query Language (CQL) version 3 for transactional workloads and support both Fluent and String APIs for DSE Graph workloads. Use these drivers in production applications to pass CQL or DSE Graph statements from the client to a cluster and to retrieve, manipulate, or remove data. The C/C++, C#, Java, Node.js, PHP, Python, and Ruby drivers support Cassandra’s binary protocol.

For DSE 5.1, you can use any DataStax driver that supports Cassandra 3.1. To verify compatibility, check the version compatibility for your driver’s language. However, to use functionality for DSE 5.1 and later, such as DSE Graph, you must use the DSE-only drivers.

Cassandra, DSE, HCD, and Astra DB drivers

You can use DataStax drivers for Cassandra, DSE, HCD, and Astra DB.

To get started, see Developing applications with Apache Cassandra™ and DataStax Enterprise. This guide contains information about best practices, connecting to clusters, submitting queries with drivers, and handling client and server errors.

Guides Source (GitHub) Version Compatibility Upgrade Quickstart

C++

C++

C++

C++

C++

C# Graph extension

C#

C#

C#

C#

Java with Graph extension Maven Central

Java

Java

Java

Java

Node.js Graph extension

Node.js

Node.js

Node.js

Node.js

Python

Python

Python

Python

DataStax doesn’t support Java driver version 3.x. For information about upgrading to 4.x, see the Java driver 4.x upgrade guide and the DataStax Support Java driver upgrade article

JDBC and ODBC drivers

To download the DataStax ODBC drivers for Cassandra, DSE, and HCD with CQL connector, see the ODBC/JDBC drivers download page.

The JDBC drivers require access to the DataStax Support Portal. For more information, see the DataStax Support OBDC/JDBC drivers article.

For ODBC driver installation instructions, see the DataStax ODBC install documentation.

PHP and Ruby drivers

The PHP and Ruby drivers are in an EOSL state.

DSE drivers guides OSS drivers guides DSE version compatibility OSS version compatibility

PHP

PHP

DSE PHP

OSS PHP

Ruby

Ruby

DSE Ruby

OSS Ruby

Spark Cassandra Connector

DSE Developer Guides Github

Getting started with the Spark Cassandra Connector 6.9 | 6.8 | 6.7 | 6.0 | 5.1

DataStax Spark Cassandra Connector

DSE-only drivers

Starting January 2020, DataStax unified the DSE and Cassandra drivers. For more information, see the Better Drivers for Cassandra blog.

DSE-only drivers were supported until January 1st, 2022. Going forward, all new features and functionality are added to the unified DataStax drivers.

Driver Guides Graph Extensions Version compatibility

DSE C++ Guide

DSE C++

DSE C# Guide

DSE C# Graph Extension

DSE C#

DSE Java Guide

Included

DSE Java

DSE Node.js Guide

DSE Node.js Graph Extension

DSE Node.js

DSE Python Guide

DSE Python Graph Extension

DSE Python

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