Pycassa

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pycassa is a client library for Apache Cassandra.

It is a Python client library having following features:

Auto-failover for normal or thread-local connections
Batch interface
Connection pooling
Method to map an existing class to a Cassandra column family

Like Apache Cassandra, pycassa is open-source.

Code example

The following code adds the user name with the corresponding password to the column families (pycassa.ColumnFamily) USER and USERNAME:

username = "jericevans"
password = "**********"
useruuid = str(uuid())
columns = {"id": useruuid, "username": username, "password": password}
USER.insert(useruuid, columns)
USERNAME.insert(username, {"id": useruuid})

References

1 2 "pycassa". github. Retrieved 2011-03-18.
↑ "Cassandra By Example: Tying it all together". Rackspace. Archived from the original on 2011-02-21. Retrieved 2011-03-18.

Tiwari, Shashank (31 August 2011). Professional NoSQL. John Wiley & Sons. p. 172. ISBN 978-1-118-16780-9. Retrieved 10 May 2025.

Ramakrishnan, Lavanya; Mantha, Pradeep K.; Yao, Yushu; Canon, Richard S. "Evaluation of NoSQL and Array Databases for Scientific Applications" (PDF). The International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis. Lawrence Berkeley National Lab

External links

pycassa 1.0.6 Documentation

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