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Explain different data types available in Cassandra.

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The Cassandra Query Language (CQL) has native types for single values and collections for groups of values. You can also define your own types and use tuples.

The native types:

  • Text: TEXT, VARCHAR and ASCII.
  • Small integers: TINYINT and SMALLINT.
  • Large integers: INT, BIGINT and VARINT, which has no size limit.
  • Other numbers: FLOAT, DOUBLE and DECIMAL, a variable-precision decimal.
  • Time: TIMESTAMP, DATE and TIME.
  • DURATION for a length of time.
  • Identifiers: UUID and TIMEUUID.
  • BOOLEAN for true or false, and BLOB for binary data.
  • INET for an IP address.
  • COUNTER, which you can only increment or decrement.
  • VECTOR, an array of floats for vector search, added in Cassandra 5.0.

The collections are SET<type> for sorted unique values, LIST<type> for values ordered by position that allow duplicates, and MAP<key_type, value_type> for key-value pairs.

User-defined types (UDTs) group named fields, and tuples group values without names.

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