Good suggestion Mike. I'm +1 on the idea and agree the name KEYSPACE is confusing to new users.
Jon On 2023/04/04 15:48:26 Mike Adamson 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> >
