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+# THIS BINDING IS DEPRECATED
+----------------------------
+Date of removal from YCSB: **March 2016**
+
+Due to the low amount of use and support for older Cassandra lineages (0.X and 1.X), YCSB will not support clients for these versions either.
+
+For Cassandra 2.X use the ```cassandra2-cql``` client: https://github.com/brianfrankcooper/YCSB/tree/master/cassandra2.
 
 # Cassandra (0.7, 0.8, 1.x) drivers for YCSB
 
 **For Cassandra 2 CQL support, use the `cassandra2-cql` binding.  The Thrift drivers below are deprecated, and the CQL driver here does not support Cassandra 2.1+.**
 
 There are three drivers in the Cassandra binding:
 
 * `cassandra-7`: Cassandra 0.7 Thrift binding.
 * `cassandra-8`: Cassandra 0.8 Thrift binding.
 * `cassandra-10`: Cassandra 1.0+ Thrift binding.
 * `cassandra-cql`: Cassandra CQL binding, for Cassandra 1.x to 2.0. See `cassandra2/README.md` for details on parameters.
 
 # `cassandra-10`
 
 ## Creating a table
 
 Using `cassandra-cli`:
 
       create keyspace usertable with placement_strategy = 'org.apache.cassandra.locator.SimpleStrategy' and strategy_options = {replication_factor:1};
 
       create column family data with column_type = 'Standard' and comparator = 'UTF8Type';
 
 **Note that `replication_factor` and consistency levels (below) will affect performance.**
 
 ## Configuration Parameters
 
 - `hosts` (**required**)
   - Cassandra nodes to connect to.
   - No default.
 
 * `port`
   - Thrift port for communicating with Cassandra cluster.
   * Default is `9160`.
 
 - `cassandra.columnfamily`
   - Column family name - must match the column family for the table created (see above).
   - Default value is `data`
 
 - `cassandra.username`
 - `cassandra.password`
   - Optional user name and password for authentication. See http://docs.datastax.com/en/cassandra/2.0/cassandra/security/security_config_native_authenticate_t.html for details.
 
 * `cassandra.readconsistencylevel`
 * `cassandra.scanconsistencylevel`
 * `cassandra.writeconsistencylevel`
 
   - Default value is `ONE`
   - Consistency level for reads and writes, respectively. See the [DataStax documentation](http://docs.datastax.com/en/cassandra/2.0/cassandra/dml/dml_config_consistency_c.html) for details.
   - *Note that the default setting does not provide durability in the face of node failure. Changing this setting will affect observed performance.* See also `replication_factor`, above.