Examples

Create table with UUID as the primary key

Create the cyclist_name table with UUID as the primary key:

CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS cycling.cyclist_name (
  id UUID PRIMARY KEY,
  lastname text,
  firstname text
);

Create a compound primary key

Create the cyclist_category table and store the data in reverse order:

CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS cycling.cyclist_category (
  category text,
  points int,
  id UUID,
  lastname text,
  PRIMARY KEY (category, points)
)
WITH CLUSTERING ORDER BY (points DESC);

Creating a composite partition key

Create a table that is optimized for query by cyclist rank by year:

CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS cycling.rank_by_year_and_name (
  race_year int,
  race_name text,
  cyclist_name text,
  rank int,
  PRIMARY KEY ((race_year, race_name), rank)
);

Creating a table with a vertex label or an edge label

Create the person table with a vertex label person_label as graph data:

CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS food_cql.person ( 
   person_id UUID, 
   name text, 
   gender text,
   nickname set<text>,
   cal_goal int,
   macro_goal list<int>,
   badge map<text, date>,
   PRIMARY KEY (name, person_id)
) WITH CLUSTERING ORDER BY (person_id ASC) AND VERTEX LABEL person_label;

Create the book table with a vertex label book_label as graph data:

CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS food_cql.book ( 
   book_id int, 
   name text,
   authors list<frozen<fullname>>,
   publish_year int,
   isbn text,
   category set<text>,
   PRIMARY KEY (name, book_id)
) WITH CLUSTERING ORDER BY (book_id ASC) AND VERTEX LABEL;

Create the person_authored_book table with an edge label authored as graph data:

CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS food_cql.person_authored_book (
    person_id UUID,
    person_name text,
    book_id int,
    book_name text,
    PRIMARY KEY ( (person_name, person_id) , book_name, book_id)
) WITH EDGE LABEL person_authored_book
      FROM person(name, person_id)
      TO book(name, book_id);

See Managing Graphs for information on creating graphs.

Creating a table with a frozen UDT

Create the race_winners table that has a frozen user-defined type (UDT):

CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS cycling.race_winners (
  cyclist_name FROZEN<fullname>, 
  race_name text,
  race_position int,
  PRIMARY KEY (race_name, race_position)
);

See Creating a user-defined type for information on creating UDTs. UDTs can be created unfrozen if only non-collection fields are used in the user-defined type creation. If the table is created with an unfrozen UDT, then individual field values can be updated and deleted.

Creating a table with a geospatial type

CREATE TABLE cycling.geospatial (
  id text PRIMARY KEY,
  point 'PointType',
  linestring 'LineStringType'
);

Creating a table with a CDC log

Create a change data capture log for the cyclist_id table:

CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS cycling.cyclist_id (
  lastname text,
  firstname text,
  age int,
  id UUID,
  PRIMARY KEY ((lastname, firstname), age)
);

CDC logging must be enabled in cassandra.yaml.

Before enabling CDC logging, have a plan for moving and consuming the log information. After the disk space limit is reached, writes to CDC-enabled tables are rejected until more space is freed. See Change-data-capture (CDC) space settings for information about available CDC settings.

Storing data in descending order

The following example shows a table definition that stores the categories with the highest points first.

CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS cycling.cyclist_category (
  category text,
  points int,
  id UUID,
  lastname text,
  PRIMARY KEY (category, points)
)
WITH CLUSTERING ORDER BY (points DESC);

Restoring from the table ID for commit log replay

Recreate a table with its original ID to facilitate restoring table data by replaying commit logs:

CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS cycling.cyclist_emails (
  userid text PRIMARY KEY,
  id UUID,
  emails set<text>
)
WITH ID = '1bb7516e-b140-11e8-96f8-529269fb1459';

To retrieve a table’s ID, query the id column of system_schema.tables. For example:

SELECT id FROM system_schema.tables
WHERE keyspace_name = 'cycling'
  AND table_name = 'cyclist_emails';

To perform a point-in-time restoration of the table, see Restoring a backup to a specific point-in-time.

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