Does anyone know the difference between the two CQL data types text and varchar in Cassandra? The Cassandra documentation describes both types as "UTF-8 encoded string" and nothing more.
Answer
text is just an alias for varchar!
The documentation:
- Using cql3 - Datastax
- CQL commands - Datastax
- Documentation on Datatypes in CQL - Datastax
- CQL3 Documentation - Apache
EDIT
Here's the link to the C* 1.2 docs. The text vs varchar info is still the same, however this document contains some extra datatypes.
EDIT v2 Documentation links have been updated to the docs for C* 3. I couldn't find a good alternative for the C* 1.2 docs.