What is Cassandra Query Language (CQL)? - Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra)

What is Cassandra Query Language (CQL)?

Cassandra Query Language (CQL) is the primary language for communicating with Apache Cassandra. Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra) is compatible with the CQL 3.x API (backward-compatible with version 2.x).

To run CQL queries, you can do one of the following:

  • Use the CQL editor on the AWS Management Console.

  • Run them on the cqlsh client.

  • Run them programmatically using an Apache 2.0 licensed Cassandra client driver.

For more information about using these methods to access Amazon Keyspaces, see Accessing Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra).

For more information about CQL, see CQL language reference for Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra).