cassandra Connecting to Cassandra
Remarks
The Cassandra Driver from Datastax very much mirrors the Java JDBC MySQL driver.
Session, Statement, PreparedStatement are present in both drivers.
The Singleton Connection is from this question and answer: http://stackoverflow.com/a/24691456/671896
Feature wise, Cassandra 2 and 3 are identical. Cassandra 3 introduced a complete rewrite of the data storage system.
