Query language of Apache Cassandra, used by Cosmos DB's API for Cassandra.
Also called Cassandra Query Language.
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Terms in this definition
- Apache Cassandra
A column-family database that is open source. Azure offers a fully managed Cosmos DB API for it that still uses CQL (Cassandra Query Language), letting existing workloads migrate with little rework.
- Cosmos DB
NoSQL database distributed globally, offering writes in multiple regions, automatic indexing and latency below 10 ms.
- API
Short for application programming interface: a contract that client code calls programmatically, for example a web API secured with tokens or the Files, Images or Responses APIs.