CQL in Cassandra - Cassandra Tutorial

- [Instructor] While Cassandra has many libraries and SDKs for access by the applications you create, it is important to have a direct means of access to the database outside of your applications. For this, there is CQL, Cassandra Query Language. It is similar in many ways to SQL but there are some differences. Accessing your database using CQL can be done in a few different ways. Most people use the command line tool cqlsh to interact with their database. This is available on most platforms and while it takes a bit of configuration, it is very usable. You can get the documentation from the first link here or use the Gitpod instance at the second link to work with it outside of the Astra system. Since we are using the Astra database, you can also use the CQL console hosted on the Astra dashboard. For this course, I will be using the Astra CQL console but you are welcome to explore cqlsh from the links on the previous slide. Here's an overview of the main commands for CQL. I'll go over…