Managing Schemas

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cqlengine.connection

cqlengine.management

Once a connection has been made to Cassandra, you can use the functions in cqlengine.management to create and delete keyspaces, as well as create and delete tables for defined models

create_keyspace(name)

param name: the keyspace name to create
type name: string

creates a keyspace with the given name

delete_keyspace(name)

param name: the keyspace name to delete
type name: string

deletes the keyspace with the given name

sync_table(model [, create_missing_keyspace=True])

param model: the ~cqlengine.model.Model class to make a table with
type model: ~cqlengine.model.Model
param create_missing_keyspace: Optional If True, the model's keyspace will be created if it does not already exist. Defaults to True
type create_missing_keyspace: bool

syncs a python model to cassandra (creates & alters)

drop_table(model)

param model: the ~cqlengine.model.Model class to delete a column family for
type model: ~cqlengine.model.Model

deletes the CQL table for the given model

See the example at getting-started

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