Apache Cassandra 1.2 Documentation
Querying Cassandra¶
You use cqlsh for querying the Cassandra database from the command line. All of the commands included in CQL are available on the cqlsh command line. Several cqlsh commands, however, are not included in CQL. The command table of contents lists these commands by type.You can run cqlsh-only commands from only the command line.
This document describes CQL 3.0.0, cqlsh, and the Command Line Interface (CLI) for querying Cassandra.
- Getting started using CQL
- Creating and updating a keyspace
- Creating a table
- Querying system tables
- Retrieving columns
- Determining time-to-live and write time
- Altering a table to add columns
- Removing data
- Using collections: set, list, and map
- Using the list type
- Using the map type
- Indexing a column
- Paging through unordered partitioner results
- Getting started using the Cassandra CLI