Cassandra is scalable, highly available, durable, and fault-tolerant, has lower admin overhead, has faster read-write, and is a resilient column-oriented database. It is easier to learn and configure. It provides solutions for quite complex problems. It also supports replication across multiple data centers. Plenty of big companies, for example, Apple, eBay, and Netflix use Cassandra.
We can read and write data in Python from Cassandra using the cassandra-driver connector. For this connectivity purpose, we need to install Cassandra and cassandra-driver connectors. You can download Cassandra from its official website: http://cassandra.apache.org/download/. cassandra-driver is a pure Python Cassandra client library that can be installed using pip:
pip install cassandra-driver
Let's try database connectivity using cassandra-driver:
# Import the cluster
from cassandra.cluster import Cluster
# Creating a cluster object
cluster = Cluster()
# Create connections...
