Cassandra: text vs varchar

text is just an alias for varchar!

The documentation:

• Using cql3 – Datastax
• CQL commands – Datastax
• Documentation on Datatypes in CQL – Datastax
• CQL3 Documentation – Apache

EDIT

Here’s the link to the C* 1.2 docs. The text vs varchar info is still the same, however this document contains some extra datatypes.

EDIT v2
Documentation links have been updated to the docs for C* 3. I couldn’t find a good alternative for the C* 1.2 docs.