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Add readme note about cql/native protocol
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thobbs committed Feb 6, 2014
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*pycassa* is a python client library for [Apache Cassandra](http://cassandra.apache.org)
*pycassa* is a Thrift-based python client library for [Apache Cassandra](http://cassandra.apache.org)
with the following features:

* Automatic failover and operation retries
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* A batch interface
* A class for mapping classes to Cassandra column families

The latest release is fully compatible with Cassandra 0.7, 0.8, 1.0, and 1.1.
pycassa does not support CQL or Cassandra's native protocol. If you would like to use those,
you should use the newer [DataStax python driver](https://github.com/datastax/python-driver).

*pycassa* is open source under the [MIT license](http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php).

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