All documentation links

Here’s a list of DataStax documentation, plus links to related open-source project docs.

Stargate APIs

The Stargate Document, REST, GraphQL, and gRPC APIs can be used for supported versions of DSE and OSS Apache Cassandra®. For information about these APIs, including installation guides, quickstarts, development guides, and examples, see Stargate Document, REST, GraphQL, and gRPC API documentation.

For Astra DB only, the Stargate Document, REST, GraphQL, and gRPC APIs are deprecated as of September 2024 with end-of-life (EOL) scheduled for the end of 2025. For migration guidance, see Migrate to the Data API from the Stargate APIs.

For information about the Stargate Data API (previously known as the Stargate JSON API), see the following:

Mission Control

You can use Mission Control for DSE, HCD, and Apache Cassandra operational management.

DataStax-compatible drivers

DataStax supports drivers for Apache Cassandra® in several programming languages.

You can use these drivers with DSE, HCD, and Astra DB, as well as open-source Apache Cassandra.

For more information, see Cassandra drivers supported by DataStax.

Apache Cassandra Spark connector

The Apache Cassandra Spark connector API lets you expose tables as Spark Resilient Distributed Datasets (RDDs), write Spark RDDs to tables, and execute arbitrary CQL queries in your Spark applications.

Apache Cassandra

The latest Apache Cassandra documentation is available on the Apache Cassandra website with earlier versions hosted on the DataStax website.

  • 5.x (latest)

  • 4.x

  • 3.11

  • 3.x on docs.datastax.com

  • 2.x on docs.datastax.com

For DataStax capacity planning guidance, see the DataStax Apache Cassandra capacity planning guide.

DSE OpsCenter

For DSE OpsCenter 6.8 documentation, see the following:

The DSE OpsCenter API facilitates the development of websites and programs to retrieve data and perform DSE administrative actions. The DSE OpsCenter API provides the ability to make RESTful requests for programmatically performing the same set of operations as the DSE OpsCenter GUI.

Cassandra Query Language (CQL)

See the DataStax CQL documentation, which covers cql and cqlsh, with versions for Astra DB, DSE (6.9, 6.8, and 5.1), HCD, and Apache Cassandra 5.0.

For additional CQL documentation, see the Apache Cassandra documentation links.

DataStax Studio

DataStax Docker

The unified DataStax Docker guide provides information about installing and using the following DataStax Docker images:

  • DSE

  • DSE OpsCenter

  • DataStax Studio

  • Data API image for HCD and DSE only.

DataStax Docker images are hosted on Docker Hub. You can report issues and find sample Docker Compose scripts in the DataStax Docker images repository.

For supported platforms and Docker versions, see Install Docker for use with DataStax Docker images.

End of Service Life and unsupported products (archived docs)

Products that have reached End of Service Life (EOSL) no longer receive patches, bug fixes, support, or documentation updates. The documentation for these products has been archived and can be found at the following links.

DSE 6.7
DSE 6.0
Earlier DSE versions
Unsupported DSE OpsCenter versions
Cassandra documentation from unsupported DSE releases
Cassandra for Linux
  • Cassandra 3.x (Linux): HTML | Zip

  • Cassandra 3.0 (Linux): HTML | Zip

  • Cassandra 2.2 (Linux): HTML | Zip

  • Cassandra 2.1 (Linux): HTML | PDF | Zip

  • Cassandra 2.0 (Linux): HTML | Zip

  • Cassandra 1.2 (Linux): HTML | Zip

  • Cassandra 1.1 (Linux): HTML | PDF

  • Cassandra 1.0 (Linux): HTML | PDF

  • Cassandra 0.8 (Linux): HTML

  • Cassandra 0.7 (Linux): HTML

  • Cassandra 0.6 (Linux): HTML

Cassandra for Windows
  • Cassandra 3.x (Windows): HTML | Zip

  • Cassandra 3.0 (Windows): HTML | Zip

  • Cassandra 2.2 (Windows): HTML | Zip

CQL documentation from unsupported DSE releases
  • CQL for DSE 6.7: PDF | Zip

  • cqlsh standalone tool for DSE 6.7: HTML | PDF | Zip

  • CQL for DSE 6.0: PDF | Zip

  • cqlsh standalone tool for DSE 6.0: HTML | PDF | Zip

  • CQL 3.3: HTML | Zip (for DSE 5.0 and Cassandra 3.0)

  • CQL 3.1: HTML | Zip (for DSE 4.0, 4.5, 4.6, 4.7, 4.8; Cassandra 2.0, 2.1)

  • CQL 3.0: HTML | Zip (for DSE 5.0 and Cassandra 3.0)

  • CQL 3.x: HTML | Zip (for Cassandra 2.2 and 3.x)

Other archived documentation for unsupported DSE versions
  • Playlist tutorial for DSE 4.8 and Cassandra 2.1: HTML | PDF | Zip

  • Kerberos tutorial for DSE: HTML | Zip

  • OBDC driver for Apache Cassandra 2.0.6 and compatible DSE versions: HTML

  • DataStax DevCenter for DSE versions 5.0 and earlier: HTML

  • DataStax Studio 1.0: HTML | Zip

  • DataStax Desktop

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