Connecting to Astra
Using a Cassandra driver to connect to a DataStax Astra database is almost identical to using the driver to connect to any Apache Cassandra® database. The only differences are in how the driver is configured in an application and that you will need to obtain a secure connect bundle.
Prerequisites
- Create an Astra database and download your secure connect bundle.
- Create a project in your desired language (Java or Python).
Connecting to the database
Using a combination of the secure bundle file and its associated credentials, connect to your Astra database.
Retrieving metadata
After connecting to the database, get a metadata object and retrieve information about the nodes that make up the cluster.