Native types: These are built-in types in Cassandra. For each type there is a keyword to define.
Collection types: These types can store a group of native type elements. There are three categories—set, list, and map.
Tuple types: Tuple types can store a fixed length group of elements in a column similar to user-defined types, except that the tuple element field has no names. Hence, the ordering should be the same as during inserting a record in the order they are defined at table creation time. The following is an example of creating a column family with a tuple type:
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