DataStax PHP driver for Apache Cassandra®

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.

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Fully compatible

Fully compatible

Partially compatible

Partially compatible

Not compatible


OSS PHP driver compatibility

The OSS PHP driver is in maintenance mode, and it is not actively developed.

Driver Cassandra DataStax Enterprise (DSE) Astra DB

Version

4.0+

3.0+

2.2

2.1

5.1

5.0

4.8

Cloud

1.2+

Partially compatible 6

Fully compatible

Fully compatible

Fully compatible

Partially compatible 10

Partially compatible 10

Fully compatible

1.1

Partially compatible 5

Partially compatible 5

Fully compatible

Partially compatible 5

Partially compatible 5

Fully compatible

1.0

Partially compatible 9

Partially compatible 9

5 Limited to the Cassandra 2.1 API

6 Limited to the Cassandra 3.0.x/2.2.x API.

9 Limited to the Cassandra 2.0 API.

10 While the Cassandra drivers are able to connect to DSE clusters, DataStax recommends using the DSE driver for better compatibility with this DSE version.

DSE PHP driver compatibility

The DSE-only PHP driver reached EOL in January 2022.

Driver DataStax Enterprise (DSE)

Version

5.1

5.0

4.8

1.1+

Fully compatible

Fully compatible

Fully compatible

1.0

Partially compatible 1

Fully compatible

Fully compatible

1 Limited to DSE 5.0 API.

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