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Congratulations to the team.

Any word on native JSON types ? Scylla will have another reason to drop Cassandra.

JSON types are actually not very often requested feature so we have not prioritized it very high. I suspect that's because most people just store their JSON data as text and do processing in their applocation.

There's an open issue about it on Github:

https://github.com/scylladb/scylla/issues/2058

Please feel free to upvote and comment on the issue to voice your interest in the feature.

Some clarity - that issue is about interfacing with a row within a CQL table as a piece of json, not actually storing a schemaless json document (like in a special postgres-style json datatype).

Cassandra is actually schemaless but since the shift to CQL from Thrift, it's unlikely that it'll go back to a schemaless model again.

In the meantime, the Keen.IO crew has a nice model for storing lots of arbitrary json if that's something thats needed. It takes some work but a very clever strategy and they've made it work well.

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