CQL : Creating a simple keyspace

I promised a few tutorials covering CQL examples so I’m going to kick off a series to demonstrate all/most of the features of Cassandra‘s new query language, CQL.

In this example we’ll create a keyspace and look at the proerties available when doing so, this will demonstrate one of the key words in CQL, CREATE KEYSPACE. This example has been done in Java since it is one of the easiest languages to get up and running with, however the CQL statements are portable i.e. not dependent on the language you use. There is a PHP CQL driver being developed by Nick, Dave, my self and others but I’ve been out for about a month pre-occupied with a few things, the guys have been making some progress so check out the driver if you’re using PHP and want to use or contribute to the development. Read more of this post