Yes, you can bind parameters by name:
```
INSERT INTO songs (id, title, album, artist) VALUES (:id, :title, :album,
:artist)
```
All DataStax drivers for Cassandra support this feature. In Java it looks
like
// prepare only once
PreparedStatememt pstmt = session.prepare("INSERT INTO songs (id, t
Looking through the CQL 3.1 grammar in Cassandra, I found a "':' ident"
alternative in the "value" rule (line 961).
Is this for binding named parameters in prepared statements? Is this
currently supported by any of the drivers or in Cassandra (2.1) itself?
Looking at the docs and the current Java
