A Python client driver for Apache Cassandra. This driver works exclusively with the Cassandra Query Language v3 (CQL3) and Cassandra's native protocol. As such, only Cassandra 1.2+ is supported.
Installation through pip is recommended:
$ pip install cassandra-driverFor more complete installation instructions, see the installation guide.
A couple of links for getting up to speed:
You can also find some notes about the performance on the documentation page.
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.
Your two best options for getting help with the driver are the mailing list and the IRC channel.
For IRC, use the #datastax-drivers channel on irc.freenode.net. If you don't have an IRC client, you can use freenode's web-based client.
- C extension for encoding/decoding messages
- Twisted, gevent support
- Python 3 support
- IPv6 Support
Copyright 2013, DataStax
Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at
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