Django-cassandra-engine

About the project

Django-cassandra-engine is almost 4 years old Open Source project of the Django app that adds support to Cassandra database backend.

It provides all tools you need to start your journey with Apache Cassandra and Django Framework:

• integration with latest cassandra-driver and optionally cassandra-driver-dse from Datastax
• working flush, migrate, sync_cassandra, inspectdb and dbshell commands
• support for creating/destroying test database
• automatic connection/disconnection handling
• storing sessions in Cassandra
• working Django forms
• usable admin panel with Cassandra models

Setup

• Add django_cassandra_engine to INSTALLED_APPS in your settings.py file:

  INSTALLED_APPS = ('django_cassandra_engine',) + INSTALLED_APPS
  

• Change DATABASES setting:

   DATABASES = {
       'default': {
           'ENGINE': 'django_cassandra_engine',
           'NAME': 'db',
           'TEST_NAME': 'test_db',
           'HOST': 'db1.example.com,db2.example.com',
           'OPTIONS': {
               'replication': {
                   'strategy_class': 'SimpleStrategy',
                   'replication_factor': 1
               }
           }
       }
   }
  

Project page is located here: https://github.com/r4fek/django-cassandra-engine
Documentation: https://r4fek.github.io/django-cassandra-engine/

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