title: In Apache Cassandra, is it possible to set the comparator and default validator using CQL 3.0?
body: <p>Based on the Datastax webinar "<a href="http://www.datastax.com/resources/webinars/collegecredit" rel="nofollow">C*hristmas Comes Early – Creating your First Java Application with Apache Cassandra</a>", it looks like inserted columns that are not part of the schema default to a bytes datatype while column names are tied to String. Is there any way to change this?</p>