Nice job man!

On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 6:41 PM, Tyler Hobbs <ty...@datastax.com> wrote:

> 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/>
>

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