Upgrade DataStax Driver for Apache Cassandra® version to latest 4.x

The Cassandra driver in Calcite uses the very old & outdated 3.6.0 driver. The latest driver at the time of this writing is 4.13.0, also checkout the upgrade guide from 3.x to 4.x.

Upgrading the driver will enable Calcite [& other projects that uses Calcite like Drill, etc.,] users to interact with any Cassandra cluster of version 1.x, 2.x, 3.x, 4.x or even the DBaaS versions using Secure Connect Bundle (SCB) and leverage the fixes, feature and improvements done all only in the Unified Drivers moving forward.

Related News:

• Introducing DataStax Java Driver 4
• Better drivers for Cassandra