How do you create a table in ScyllaDB?

Tables are created with standard CQL CREATE TABLE statements through cqlsh, a driver, or ScyllaDB's REST/CQL tooling, specifying the partition key and any clustering columns as part of the primary key.

CREATE TABLE ecommerce.orders (
  customer_id uuid,
  order_id timeuuid,
  status text,
  total decimal,
  PRIMARY KEY (customer_id, order_id)
) WITH CLUSTERING ORDER BY (order_id DESC);

Table options can also set the compaction strategy, default TTL, and compression algorithm at creation time. Because the primary key layout directly determines physical data distribution and sort order, table design in ScyllaDB is driven by the queries the application needs to run, often called query-first or query-driven schema design, rather than starting from a normalized relational model.

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