How to auto generate uuid in cassandra CQL 3 command line
问题 Just learning cassandra, is there a way to insert a UUID using CQL, ie create table stuff (uid uuid primary key, name varchar); insert into stuff (name) values('my name'); // fails insert into stuff (uid, name) values(1, 'my name'); // fails Can you do something like insert into stuff (uid, name) values(nextuid(), 'my name'); 回答1: You can with time uuids (type 1 UUID) using the now() function e.g. insert into stuff (uid, name) values(now(), 'my name'); Works with uid or timeuuid. It generates