9. Drivers and Sample Code
In this chapter, we will present some of the clients for the most popular languages. Using the most recent driver for each of the languages, we will outline how to connect to a Cassandra cluster, initiate a session, execute CQL queries, and close the connection to the cluster.
There are currently quite a few drivers for Cassandra. Table 9.1 shows the most popular currently maintained drivers; their support of CQL, CBP (CQL Binary Protocol), and Thrift; and where to get them.
Table 9.1 Various Clients
Clients that currently support the CQL 3 Binary Protocol also support automatic node failure detection, as well as node ...
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