--- title: Cassandra Query Language (CQL) APIs on Spanner | daily.dev description: Google Cloud announces general availability of native CQL (Cassandra Query Language) API support on Spanner, enabling existing Apache Cassandra applications to... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/cassandra-query-language-cql-apis-on-spanner-ckalrokew twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Cassandra Query Language (CQL) APIs on Spanner | daily.dev og:description: Google Cloud announces general availability of native CQL (Cassandra Query Language) API support on Spanner, enabling existing Apache Cassandra applications to... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/cassandra-query-language-cql-apis-on-spanner-ckalrokew og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/CKaLROkeW.png og:image:alt: Cassandra Query Language (CQL) APIs on Spanner og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Cassandra Query Language (CQL) APIs on Spanner **[Google Cloud](https://daily.dev/sources/gcp)** · 5 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Google Cloud announces general availability of native CQL (Cassandra Query Language) API support on Spanner, enabling existing Apache Cassandra applications to migrate with minimal code changes (often just one line). The post outlines key advantages over Cassandra including global ACID transactions, strong consistency, 99.999% availability, and lower TCO. It provides a migration roadmap covering workload optimization, retiring Cassandra sidecar tools (Reaper, Medusa, Elasticsearch, JanusGraph), and leveraging Spanner's multi-model capabilities including graph, full-text search, and vector search. The piece positions Spanner as a unified replacement for the entire Cassandra ecosystem. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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