Native-Driver

CQLEngine now using the Python Native Driver

I’m happy to announce that cqlengine is now using the Python Native Driver. For the most part, this should be a trivial upgrade. See the notes below on upgrading.

The Good News

• Significantly less code to maintain in cqlengine itself. We no longer need to maintain connection pools, deal with fail over, dead servers, server discovery, server removal
• Native driver multiplexes queries over each socket, so less sockets stay open
• Notifications can be sent back to the client from the server. An example of this is a schema modification or when a new server is added.
• You can now use the policies for load balancing and failover. See the policies api of the native driver for more information.

Upgrading

If you’re using an earlier version of cqlengine, there are a few caveats to upgrading.