Cassandra: uuid data type

Below table summarizes the uuid support of Cassandra.

Data Type	Description
uuid	Type 1 or type 4 UUID

Example

CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS cassandratutorial.employee (
  id INT PRIMARY KEY, 
  first_name VARCHAR,
  description BLOB,
  male BOOLEAN,
  salary DOUBLE,
  ip_address inet,
  date_of_birth date,
  joining_time timestamp,
  unique_id uuid
);

INSERT INTO cassandratutorial.employee (id, first_name, description, male, salary, ip_address, date_of_birth, joining_time, unique_id) VALUES (1, 'Krishna', textAsBlob('I am Krishna, I am intrested in blogging, trekking'), true, 12345.67, '192.168.2.3', '1985-05-24', 1555494268, uuid());

cqlsh> CREATE KEYSPACE cassandratutorial WITH REPLICATION = 
   ... { 
   ...   'class' : 'SimpleStrategy', 
   ...   'replication_factor' : 1 
   ... };
cqlsh> 
cqlsh> CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS cassandratutorial.employee (
   ...   id INT PRIMARY KEY, 
   ...   first_name VARCHAR,
   ...   description BLOB,
   ...   male BOOLEAN,
   ...   salary DOUBLE,
   ...   ip_address inet,
   ...   date_of_birth date,
   ...   joining_time timestamp,
   ...   unique_id uuid
   ... );
cqlsh> 
cqlsh> INSERT INTO cassandratutorial.employee (id, first_name, description, male, salary, ip_address, date_of_birth, joining_time, unique_id) VALUES (1, 'Krishna', textAsBlob('I am Krishna, I am intrested in blogging, trekking'), true, 12345.67, '192.168.2.3', '1985-05-24', 1555494268, uuid());
cqlsh> 
cqlsh> SELECT * FROM cassandratutorial.employee;

 id | date_of_birth | description                                                                                            | first_name | ip_address  | joining_time                    | male | salary   | unique_id
----+---------------+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+------------+-------------+---------------------------------+------+----------+--------------------------------------
  1 |    1985-05-24 | 0x4920616d204b726973686e612c204920616d20696e7472657374656420696e20626c6f6767696e672c207472656b6b696e67 |    Krishna | 192.168.2.3 | 1970-01-19 00:04:54.268000+0000 | True | 12345.67 | bba0d1c0-b4c1-4e14-b36e-8ac2d2519bd3

(1 rows)
cqlsh>

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