Datastax java driver 4.5 tinkerpop dependecies

Question

Datastax java driver 4.5 has a lot of dependencies. Is tinkerpop required to use Datastax java driver to connect to a cassandra database ?

Answer 1

Tinkerpop dependency is required only when you're working with DataStax Graph. As documentation states, you can exclude it:

The driver has a non-optional dependency on that library, but if your application does not use graph at all, it is possible to exclude it to minimize the number of runtime dependencies (see the Integration>Driver dependencies section for more details).

and linked documentation shows driver declaration as:

<dependency>
  <groupId>com.datastax.oss</groupId>
  <artifactId>java-driver-core</artifactId>
  <version>${driver.version}</version>
  <exclusions>
    <exclusion>
      <groupId>org.apache.tinkerpop</groupId>
      <artifactId>gremlin-core</artifactId>
    </exclusion>
    <exclusion>
      <groupId>org.apache.tinkerpop</groupId>
      <artifactId>tinkergraph-gremlin</artifactId>
    </exclusion>
  </exclusions>
</dependency>