# Third-party Drivers

ScyllaDB supports the CQL binary protocol version 4, so any Apache Cassandra/CQL
driver that implements the same version works with ScyllaDB.

However, we recommend using [ScyllaDB drivers](https://docs.scylladb.com/stable/drivers/cql-drivers.md).
All ScyllaDB drivers are shard-aware and provide additional benefits over
third-party drivers.

* [DataStax Java Driver](https://github.com/datastax/java-driver/)
* [DataStax Python Driver](https://github.com/datastax/python-driver/)
* [DataStax C# Driver](https://github.com/datastax/csharp-driver/)
* [DataStax Ruby Driver](https://github.com/datastax/ruby-driver/)
* [DataStax Node.js Driver](https://github.com/datastax/nodejs-driver/)
* [DataStax C++ Driver](https://github.com/datastax/cpp-driver/)
* [DataStax PHP Driver (Supported versions: 7.1)](https://github.com/datastax/php-driver)
* [He4rt PHP Driver (Supported versions: 8.1 and 8.2)](https://github.com/he4rt/scylladb-php-driver/)
* [Scala Phantom Project](https://github.com/outworkers/phantom)
* [Xandra Elixir Driver](https://github.com/lexhide/xandra)
* [Exandra Elixir Driver](https://github.com/vinniefranco/exandra)