apache/cassandra-gocql-driver

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gocql is the official Apache Cassandra driver for Go, implementing a fast and robust client over Cassandra's native transport protocol. It provides cluster management, token-aware load balancing, automatic type conversion, paging, TLS, authentication, and query preparation.

Use cases

• connect to cassandra from go
• run cql queries in a golang application
• build a scalable backend on apache cassandra
• token-aware load balancing for cassandra clusters
• paged iteration over cassandra query results
• tls-secured cassandra connections with password auth

When to choose

• you are writing a Go application or service backed by Apache Cassandra
• you need production-grade cluster management, reconnection, and load balancing
• you want native-protocol performance with automatic type marshaling

When to avoid

• you use a database other than Cassandra or ScyllaDB-compatible CQL stores
• you need an ORM with schema migrations rather than a low-level driver
• your project is not in Go

Facets

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database-driver database databases backend developer-tools go cross-platform cassandra cql nosql gocql client-driver

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