Storing a list of values in Cassandra

Question

Version Dependent

Some of the answers to this question deal with older versions of Cassandra. The correct answer for this kind of problem depends on the version of

Answer 1

In older versions of Cassandra, you had to serialize the list yourself and store it in a column, or perhaps use a super column.

Since version 1.2 of Cassandra, CQL3 has collection types for columns, so you can give list as the type of a column in your schema. For example:

 CREATE TABLE Person (
    name text,
    skills list,
    PRIMARY KEY (name)
 );

Or you could use set if you want to automatically eliminate duplicates.