Column Types

At the moment you use Strings for the majority of the CQL types.

CQL Type	Java Type	Example
ascii	String	"a string column"
bigint	int or long or String or BigInteger	"2222222222" or new BigInteger("123")
blob	String or ByteBuffer	Hexidecimal String like cqlsh takes. "0x0012345435345345435435"
boolean	Boolean	true
counter	String or long	"11111111"
decimal	String	"13.6"
double	String	"20.5"
float	String	"30.5"
int	String or int	"5" or 5
timestamp	Long	1234l (unix time stamp) System.currentTimerMillis()
varchar	String	"a varchar"
varint	String or BigInteger	"11111111"
timeuuid	String or UUID	"59ad61d0-c540-11e2-881e-b9e6057626c4" or UUID.fromString("59ad61d0-c540-11e2-881e-b9e6057626c4")
inet	String	"127.0.0.1" or "fdda:5cc1:23:4::1f"