To start with, let's have a look at the users
table. To do this, we'll start with the LIST
command that prints all the data in a given column family:
LIST users;
This will print out a long list of information, grouped by RowKey
. For brevity, the first couple of RowKey
groups appear as follows:
Although we've never seen it structured like this before, the data here should look pretty familiar. The RowKey
headers correspond to the username column in our CQL3 table structure. Within each RowKey
is a collection of tuples, each tuple containing a name, a value, and a timestamp. We will call these tuple cells, in keeping with the terminology used in the cassandra-cli interface itself.