Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. What is the scope, DDL, DML? triggers, procedures, oh my?
On Wed, Nov 5, 2025 at 4:27 PM Patrick McFadin <[email protected]> wrote: > This is a fork of the longer discussion that happened here: > https://lists.apache.org/thread/f1q2pfpglp6d49ysoy2bvq1f5vh9bod5 > > There were some great ideas presented about bringing SQL to Cassandra. > Thanks for ChatGPT, here is a summary of the main ideas: > > - CQL stays. No deprecation. CQL remains the high-throughput, low-level > API indefinitely. > - SQL should be implemented as a stateless layer on top of the storage > engine, not by reshaping CQL into SQL. > - Utilize storage alignment with future engine work. Accord > (transactions) + ByteOrderedPartitioner / CEP-57 (ordered keyspace) make > the SQL layer more robust. > - Form a SIG / Working Group to define scope, gaps, prototypes, and > guardrails. > > Finally, everyone is waiting to see how well the prototype Jeff Jira is > building works. > > Let's pick it up from here! > > Patrick >
