# ScyllaDB Rust Driver

> ScyllaDB Driver for Rust.


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## Pages

- [ScyllaDB Rust Driver](https://rust-driver.docs.scylladb.com/main/index.md): This book contains documentation for [scylla-rust-driver](https://github.com/scylladb/scylla-rust-dr...
- [Adjusting code to changes in serialization API introduced in 0.11](https://rust-driver.docs.scylladb.com/main/migration-guides/0.11-serialization.md): When executing a statement through the CQL protocol, values for the bind markers are sent in a seria...
- [Adjusting code to changes in deserialization API introduced in 0.15](https://rust-driver.docs.scylladb.com/main/migration-guides/0.15-deserialization.md): In 0.15, a new deserialization API has been introduced. The new API improves type safety and perform...
- [Authentication](https://rust-driver.docs.scylladb.com/main/connecting/authentication.md): Driver supports both authentication by username and password and custom authentication defined by a ...
- [Tracing a simple/prepared/batch query](https://rust-driver.docs.scylladb.com/main/tracing/basic.md): [Unprepared statement](https://rust-driver.docs.scylladb.com/main/statements/unprepared.md), [prepar...
- [Batch statement](https://rust-driver.docs.scylladb.com/main/statements/batch.md): A batch statement allows to execute many data-modifying statements at once.<br />
- [Blob](https://rust-driver.docs.scylladb.com/main/data-types/blob.md): `Blob` is represented as one of:
- [Client Routes (Private Networking)](https://rust-driver.docs.scylladb.com/main/connecting/client-routes.md): When connecting to ScyllaDB Cloud clusters via private networking (e.g. AWS PrivateLink or
- [List, Set, Map](https://rust-driver.docs.scylladb.com/main/data-types/collections.md): `List` is represented as `Vec<T>`
- [Compression](https://rust-driver.docs.scylladb.com/main/connecting/compression.md): By default the driver does not use any compression on connections.<br />
- [Connecting to the cluster](https://rust-driver.docs.scylladb.com/main/connecting/connecting.md): ScyllaDB is a distributed database, which means that it operates on multiple nodes running independe...
- [Contents](https://rust-driver.docs.scylladb.com/main/contents.md): Page content
- [Counter](https://rust-driver.docs.scylladb.com/main/data-types/counter.md): `Counter` is represented as `struct Counter(pub i64)`<br />
- [Creating a profile and setting it](https://rust-driver.docs.scylladb.com/main/execution-profiles/create-and-use.md): To create an `ExecutionProfile` and attach it as default for `Session`:
- [Creating a project](https://rust-driver.docs.scylladb.com/main/quickstart/create-project.md): To create a new project run:
- [Data Types](https://rust-driver.docs.scylladb.com/main/data-types/data-types.md): The driver maps database data types to matching Rust types
- [Date](https://rust-driver.docs.scylladb.com/main/data-types/date.md): Depending on feature flags, three different types can be used to interact with date.
- [Decimal](https://rust-driver.docs.scylladb.com/main/data-types/decimal.md): `Decimal` is represented as `value::CqlDecimal` or [`bigdecimal::BigDecimal`](https://docs.rs/bigdec...
- [DefaultPolicy](https://rust-driver.docs.scylladb.com/main/load-balancing/default-policy.md): `DefaultPolicy` is the default load balancing policy in ScyllaDB Rust Driver. It
- [Default retry policy](https://rust-driver.docs.scylladb.com/main/retry-policy/default.md): This is the retry policy used by default. It retries when there is a high chance that it might help....
- [Downgrading consistency retry policy](https://rust-driver.docs.scylladb.com/main/retry-policy/downgrading-consistency.md): A retry policy that sometimes retries with a lower consistency level than the one initially
- [Duration](https://rust-driver.docs.scylladb.com/main/data-types/duration.md): `Duration` is represented as [`CqlDuration`](https://docs.rs/scylla/latest/scylla/value/struct.CqlDu...
- [Connecting and running a simple query](https://rust-driver.docs.scylladb.com/main/quickstart/example.md): Now everything is ready to use the driver.
- [Execution profiles](https://rust-driver.docs.scylladb.com/main/execution-profiles/execution-profiles.md): Execution profiles are a way to group various query execution configuration options together. Profil...
- [Fallthrough retry policy](https://rust-driver.docs.scylladb.com/main/retry-policy/fallthrough.md): The `FalthroughRetryPolicy` never retries, returns errors straight to the user. Useful for debugging...
- [Inet](https://rust-driver.docs.scylladb.com/main/data-types/inet.md): `Inet` is represented as `std::net::IpAddr`
- [Load balancing](https://rust-driver.docs.scylladb.com/main/load-balancing/load-balancing.md): The driver uses a load balancing policy to determine which node(s) and shard(s)
- [Logging](https://rust-driver.docs.scylladb.com/main/logging/logging.md): The driver uses the [tracing](https://github.com/tokio-rs/tracing) crate for all logs.<br />
- [Lightweight transaction (LWT) statement](https://rust-driver.docs.scylladb.com/main/statements/lwt.md): A lightweight transaction statement can be expressed just like any other statement, via `Session`, w...
- [All options supported by a profile](https://rust-driver.docs.scylladb.com/main/execution-profiles/maximal-example.md): `ExecutionProfile` supports all the following options:
- [Driver metrics](https://rust-driver.docs.scylladb.com/main/metrics/metrics.md): This feature is available only under the crate feature `metrics`.
- [Migration guides](https://rust-driver.docs.scylladb.com/main/migration-guides/migration-guides.md): - [Serialization changes in version 0.11](https://rust-driver.docs.scylladb.com/main/migration-guide...
- [Tracing a paged query](https://rust-driver.docs.scylladb.com/main/tracing/paged.md): A paged query performs multiple simple/prepared queries to query subsequent pages.<br />
- [Paged query](https://rust-driver.docs.scylladb.com/main/statements/paged.md): Sometimes query results might be so big that one prefers not to fetch them all at once,
- [Percentile speculative execution](https://rust-driver.docs.scylladb.com/main/speculative-execution/percentile.md): This policy has access to `Metrics` shared with session, and triggers
- [Tracing `Session::prepare`](https://rust-driver.docs.scylladb.com/main/tracing/prepare.md): `Session::prepare` prepares a query on all connections. If tracing is enabled for the `Query` to pre...
- [Prepared statement](https://rust-driver.docs.scylladb.com/main/statements/prepared.md): Prepared statements provide much better performance than unprepared statements,
- [Bool, Tinyint, Smallint, Int, Bigint, Float, Double](https://rust-driver.docs.scylladb.com/main/data-types/primitive.md): `Bool` is represented as rust `bool`
- [Priorities of execution settings](https://rust-driver.docs.scylladb.com/main/execution-profiles/priority.md): You always have a default execution profile set for the `Session`, either the default one or overrid...
- [Query Execution History](https://rust-driver.docs.scylladb.com/main/tracing/query-history.md): The driver allows to collect history of query execution.<br />
- [Quick Start](https://rust-driver.docs.scylladb.com/main/quickstart/quickstart.md): In this chapter we will set up a Rust project and run a few simple queries.
- [Remapping execution profile handles](https://rust-driver.docs.scylladb.com/main/execution-profiles/remap.md): `ExecutionProfileHandle`s can be remapped to another `ExecutionProfile`, and the change affects all ...
- [Query result](https://rust-driver.docs.scylladb.com/main/statements/result.md): `Session::query_unpaged`, `Session::query_single_page`, `Session::execute_unpaged` and `Session::exe...
- [Retry policy configuration](https://rust-driver.docs.scylladb.com/main/retry-policy/retry-policy.md): After a query fails the driver might decide to retry it based on its `Retry Policy` and the query it...
- [Schema agreement](https://rust-driver.docs.scylladb.com/main/statements/schema-agreement.md): Sometimes after executing CQL statements some nodes have not been updated, so we need a mechanism th...
- [Schema](https://rust-driver.docs.scylladb.com/main/schema/schema.md): The driver is capable of fetching database schema and presenting it to its users.
- [Running ScyllaDB using Docker](https://rust-driver.docs.scylladb.com/main/quickstart/scylla-docker.md): To make queries we will need a running ScyllaDB instance. The easiest way is to use a [Docker](https...
- [Simple speculative execution](https://rust-driver.docs.scylladb.com/main/speculative-execution/simple.md): The easiest speculative execution policy available.  It starts another
- [Speculative execution](https://rust-driver.docs.scylladb.com/main/speculative-execution/speculative.md): Speculative query execution is an optimization technique where a driver
- [Executing CQL statements - best practices](https://rust-driver.docs.scylladb.com/main/statements/statements.md): Driver supports all kinds of statements supported by ScyllaDB. The following tables aim to bridge be...
- [Ascii, Text, Varchar](https://rust-driver.docs.scylladb.com/main/data-types/text.md): `Ascii`, `Text` and `Varchar` are represented as any of: `&str`, `String`, `Box<str>`, `Arc<str>`.
- [Time](https://rust-driver.docs.scylladb.com/main/data-types/time.md): Depending on feature flags used, three different types can be used to interact with time.
- [Request timeouts](https://rust-driver.docs.scylladb.com/main/statements/timeouts.md): CQL statement execution time can be limited by setting a request timeout. If request does not comple...
- [Timestamp generators](https://rust-driver.docs.scylladb.com/main/statements/timestamp-generators.md): If you want to generate timestamps on the client side you can provide
- [Timestamp](https://rust-driver.docs.scylladb.com/main/data-types/timestamp.md): Depending on feature flags, three different types can be used to interact with timestamps.
- [Timeuuid](https://rust-driver.docs.scylladb.com/main/data-types/timeuuid.md): The `Timeuuid` type is represented as `value::CqlTimeuuid`.
- [TLS](https://rust-driver.docs.scylladb.com/main/connecting/tls.md): Driver uses either the
- [Query tracing](https://rust-driver.docs.scylladb.com/main/tracing/tracing.md): The driver has utilities for monitoring the execution of queries.
- [Tuple](https://rust-driver.docs.scylladb.com/main/data-types/tuple.md): `Tuple` is represented as rust tuples of max 16 elements.
- [User defined types](https://rust-driver.docs.scylladb.com/main/data-types/udt.md): ScyllaDB allows users to define their own data types with named fields (See [the official documentat...
- [Unprepared statement](https://rust-driver.docs.scylladb.com/main/statements/unprepared.md): Unprepared statement takes CQL statement text and values and simply executes them on a `Session`:
- [USE keyspace](https://rust-driver.docs.scylladb.com/main/statements/usekeyspace.md): Using a keyspace allows to omit keyspace name in statements.
- [Uuid](https://rust-driver.docs.scylladb.com/main/data-types/uuid.md): `Uuid` is represented as `uuid::Uuid`.
- [Statement values](https://rust-driver.docs.scylladb.com/main/statements/values.md): Statement text is constant, but the values may change.
- [Varint](https://rust-driver.docs.scylladb.com/main/data-types/varint.md): `Varint` is represented as `value::CqlVarint` or [`num_bigint::BigInt`](https://docs.rs/num-bigint/0...
- [Vector](https://rust-driver.docs.scylladb.com/main/data-types/vector.md): `Vector` is represented as `Vec<T>`

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