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Mastering Apache Cassandra 3.x - Third Edition
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Mastering Apache Cassandra 3.x - Third Edition

by Aaron Ploetz, Tejaswi Malepati
October 2018
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
348 pages
10h
English
Packt Publishing
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Data types

Apache Cassandra comes with many common types that can help you with efficient data storage and representation. As Cassandra is written in Java, the Cassandra data types correlate directly to Java data types:

CQL type

Java class

Description

ascii

String

US-ASCII (United States American Standard Codes for Information Interchange) character string.

bigint

Long

64-bit signed long.

blob

java.nio.ByteBuffer

Supports storage of BLOBs (binary large objects).

date

java.time.LocalDate

32-bit integer denoting the number of days elapsed since January 1, 1970. Dates can also be specified in CQL queries as strings (such as July 22, 2018).

decimal

java.math.BigDecimal

Arbitrary precision floating-point ...

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