dse-driver 2.8.0

DataStax Enterprise Python Driver

A modern, feature-rich and highly-tunable Python client library for DataStax Enterprise (4.7+) using exclusively Cassandra’s binary protocol and Cassandra Query Language v3.

The driver supports Python 2.7, 3.4, 3.5, and 3.6.

Note: DataStax products do not support big-endian systems.

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Features

• Synchronous and Asynchronous APIs

• Simple, Prepared, and Batch statements

• Asynchronous IO, parallel execution, request pipelining

• Automatic node discovery

• Automatic reconnection

• Configurable load balancing and retry policies

• Concurrent execution utilities

• Object mapper

• DSE Graph execution API

• DSE Geometric type serialization

• DSE PlainText and GSSAPI authentication

A fluent API extension for DSE Graph is available in the dse-graph package. For more information, see the documentation here.

Installation

Installation through pip is recommended:

$ pip install dse-driver

For more complete installation instructions, see the installation guide.

Documentation

The documentation can be found online here.

A couple of links for getting up to speed:

• Installation

• Getting started guide

• API docs

Reporting Problems

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.

Getting Help

Your best options for getting help with the driver are the mailing list and the #datastax-drivers channel in the DataStax Academy Slack.

License

Copyright 2016-2017 DataStax

Licensed under the DataStax DSE Driver License; you may not use this software except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at

http://www.datastax.com/terms/datastax-dse-driver-license-terms

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed on an “AS IS” BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License.