Express-Cassandra is a Cassandra ORM/ODM/OGM for NodeJS with Elassandra & JanusGraph Support.
No more hassling with raw cql queries from your nodejs web frameworks. Express-Cassandra automatically loads your models and provides you with object oriented mapping to your cassandra tables like a standard ORM/ODM. Built in support for Elassandra and JanusGraph allows you to automatically manage synced elasticsearch and janusgraph indexes stored in cassandra.
Express-cassandra enables your nodejs app to manage a highly available distributed data store capable of handling large dataset with powerful query features powered by cassandra, elasticsearch and janusgraph combined. Express-cassandra empowers you to manage and query this truely distributed datastore with search, analytics and graph computing functionality from nodejs like you are just dealing with javascript objects and methods. Models are written as javascript modules and they automatically create the underlying db tables, indexes, materialized views, graphs etc. Afterwards you can save, update, delete and query your data using supported model methods. It's decoupled nature allows you to use it with many popular node frameworks without much hassle.
If you are using elassandra, then saved data in cassandra automatically syncs with elasticsearch indexes defined in your schema. You can then do any query elasticsearch indexes support.
If you are using janusgraph, then you can easily manage your graphs and graph indexes. Creating vertices and edges become simple function calls. You can then do any graph query the tinkerpop3 gremlin query language supports.
This module uses datastax cassandra-driver by default or uses the dse-driver if already installed.
If you are using apache cassandra, then the module should work just fine. Datastax enterprise users can use this module, but needs to install the dse-driver separately in your app.
For apache cassandra version 3.x
npm install express-cassandra
For datastax enterprise version 5.x
npm install express-cassandra dse-driver@1.2.0
For elassandra version 5.5.x
npm install express-cassandra elasticsearch
For janusgraph version 0.2.x
npm install express-cassandra gremlin@2.6.0
For older cassandra 2.x (no longer supported)
npm install express-cassandra@0.5.4
Please note that if you use the legacy cassandra 2.x compliant version then please use the corresponding README.md file for that version. The following documentation is for version 3.x and datastax enterprise 5.x only. The materialized view support and several other part of the documentation is strictly applicable for cassandra 3.x / dse 5.x and will not work in earlier versions of cassandra.
Read the full usage documentation in the express-cassandra documentation site.
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