I know additional types have been added as of 0.8.1: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-2530
However, I'm not sure how those have propagated up to validators, the CLI, and hector though. On Jul 18, 2011, at 4:16 PM, Sameer Farooqui wrote: > I wrote some data to a standard column family (using Hector) with ASCII > row-key, Long column name and Double column value. > > The CLI doesn't seem to have a double data type to interpret the column value > for display. > > [default@DemoKS] get DemoCF[ascii('ABC_100000000020')][long(20090101000000)] > as LongType; > => (column=0000124597556740, value=4629084924887308954, > timestamp=1310144024947000) > > But that value is not exactly correct. It should be: 29.813332976331914 > > > This is how I do the read in Hector: > > ColumnQuery<String, Long, Double> columnQuery = > HFactory.createColumnQuery(keyspace, ss, ls, ds); > > > columnQuery.setColumnFamily("DemoCF").setKey("ABC_100000000020").setName(20090101000000L); > > QueryResult<HColumn<Long, Double>> result = columnQuery.execute(); > > System.out.println("Query result: " + result.get()); > > > Is there a equivalent for that in Cassandra CLI? > > - Sameer >