I think supporting DATABASE is a great idea. It's better aligned with SQL databases, and can save new users one of the first troubles they find.
Probably anyone starting to use Cassandra for the first time is going to face the what is a keyspace? question in the first minutes. Saving that to users with a more common name would be a victory for usability IMO. On Tue, 4 Apr 2023 at 16:48, Mike Adamson <madam...@datastax.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I'd like to propose that we add DATABASE to the CQL grammar as an > alternative to KEYSPACE. > > Background: While TABLE was introduced as an alternative for COLUMNFAMILY > in the grammar we have kept KEYSPACE for the container name for a group of > tables. Nearly all traditional SQL databases use DATABASE as the container > name for a group of tables so it would make sense for Cassandra to adopt > this naming as well. > > KEYSPACE would be kept in the grammar but we would update some logging and > documentation to encourage use of the new name. > > Mike Adamson > > -- > [image: DataStax Logo Square] <https://www.datastax.com/> *Mike Adamson* > Engineering > > +1 650 389 6000 <16503896000> | datastax.com <https://www.datastax.com/> > Find DataStax Online: [image: LinkedIn Logo] > <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.linkedin.com_company_datastax&d=DwMFaQ&c=adz96Xi0w1RHqtPMowiL2g&r=IFj3MdIKYLLXIUhYdUGB0cTzTlxyCb7_VUmICBaYilU&m=uHzE4WhPViSF0rsjSxKhfwGDU1Bo7USObSc_aIcgelo&s=akx0E6l2bnTjOvA-YxtonbW0M4b6bNg4nRwmcHNDo4Q&e=> > [image: Facebook Logo] > <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.facebook.com_datastax&d=DwMFaQ&c=adz96Xi0w1RHqtPMowiL2g&r=IFj3MdIKYLLXIUhYdUGB0cTzTlxyCb7_VUmICBaYilU&m=uHzE4WhPViSF0rsjSxKhfwGDU1Bo7USObSc_aIcgelo&s=ncMlB41-6hHuqx-EhnM83-KVtjMegQ9c2l2zDzHAxiU&e=> > [image: Twitter Logo] <https://twitter.com/DataStax> [image: RSS > Feed] <https://www.datastax.com/blog/rss.xml> [image: Github Logo] > <https://github.com/datastax> > >
