As an aside, Apache Cassandra CQL is now used by a growing number of wire-compliant databases: • Cassandra • Scylla (full disclosure: I work for ScyllaDB) • Dat

As an aside, Apache Cassandra CQL is now used by a growing number of wire-compliant databases: • Cassandra • Scylla (full disclosure: I work for ScyllaDB) • DataStax Enterprise (DSE) • Cosmos DB • Yugabyte If you want to learn more about CQL: https://docs.scylladb.com/using-scylla/cql/ https://docs.scylladb.com/using-scylla/cql/ If you want to learn how it's different, here's a quick StackOverflow answer: https://stackoverflow.com/a/19140553/6995180 https://stackoverflow.com/a/19140553/6995180