[CASSANDRA-9424] Schema Improvements

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Open
• Priority: Normal
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Fix Version/s: 5.x
• Component/s: Legacy/Distributed Metadata
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Aleksey Yeschenko
• Created: 19/May/15 16:20
• Updated: 07/Mar/23 10:54

Description

C* schema code is both more brittle and less efficient than I'd like it to be. This ticket will aggregate the improvement tickets to go into 3.X and 4.X to improve the situation.

Issue Links

• is duplicated by: CASSANDRA-8916 com.datastax.driver.core.exceptions.AlreadyExistsException: Keyspace <keysapce-name> already exists
• supercedes: CASSANDRA-9933 column name mismatch

Sub-Tasks

• Support schema changes in mixed version clusters: Open
• Expose builtin-in CQL functions via schema data dictionary: Open
• Serialize table schema as a sstable component: Open
• Make schema alterations strongly consistent: Open
• Make pulling schema from remote nodes more lightweight: Open