You can do CREATE TABLE schemaless (id blob, name blob, value blob, PRIMARY KEY (id, name)) WITH COMPACT STORAGE; and have a 'schemaless' table, essenitally, just as with Thrift.
This is not a workaround either - this is first-class supported, just as you can read/write from/to 'schemaless' thrift columnfamilies using CQL.
You can do CREATE TABLE schemaless (id blob, name blob, value blob, PRIMARY KEY (id, name)) WITH COMPACT STORAGE; and have a 'schemaless' table, essenitally, just as with Thrift.
This is not a workaround either - this is first-class supported, just as you can read/write from/to 'schemaless' thrift columnfamilies using CQL.