For those of you using pycassa or the cassandra dbapi2 driver, I wanted to let you know that a beta version of the DataStax python driver is available on GitHub here: https://github.com/datastax/python-driver
This driver works exclusively with cql3 and uses the new native protocol for Cassandra 1.2+ in place of Thrift. The main benefits are: - Request pipelining, which allows for greater throughput with a smaller number of connections - Push notifications from Cassandra about changes to the cluster state - More advanced connection pooling capabilities, including node autodiscovery, token-aware routing, and multi-datacenter awareness The driver design closely follows that of the DataStax Java driver ( https://github.com/datastax/java-driver) and C# driver ( https://github.com/datastax/csharp-driver) with some pythonic adjustments. There's also a basic mapping layer available through the 'native' branch of the cqlengine library, which can be found here: https://github.com/cqlengine/cqlengine/tree/native. We're planning to put the driver through some rigorous QA internally before the first non-beta release of the driver later this year. If you have any questions, suggestions, or bug reports, I would love to hear them! -- Tyler Hobbs DataStax <http://datastax.com/>
