CQL Reference¶

cqlsh - The CQL Shell¶

cqlsh is a command line shell for interacting with ScyllaDB through CQL.

• CQLSh: the CQL shell

CQL - Apache Cassandra Query Language¶

The Apache Cassandra Query Language (CQL) is the primary language for communicating with the ScyllaDB database. It allows you to create keyspaces and tables, insert and query tables, and more.

• Appendices

• Compaction

• Consistency Levels

• Consistency Levels Calculator

• Data Definition

• Data Manipulation

• Data Types

• Definitions

• Global Secondary Indexes

• Expiring Data with Time to Live (TTL)

• Functions

• JSON Support

• Materialized Views

• Non-Reserved CQL Keywords

• Reserved CQL Keywords

ScyllaDB CQL Extensions - CQL Extensions Provided by ScyllaDB¶

ScyllaDB provides additional features that extend the Apache CQL.

• ScyllaDB CQL Extensions