Yeah Cassandra has CQL and it works pretty well, it's comfortable to use where the cassandra-cli is quite painful for anything other than the very beginning of

Yeah Cassandra has CQL and it works pretty well, it's comfortable to use where the cassandra-cli is quite painful for anything other than the very beginning of a project. I believe in earlier releases CQL was slower but now it seems fine. Also the most popular Cassandra client, hector, supports CQL, adopting CQL should be possible for a lot of Cassandra use cases.