DESCRIBE
is not part of the CQL spec (neither CQL2 nor CQL3). If you'd like to completely reconstruct the DESCRIBE
you could take a look at cqlsh implementation (look for print_recreate_columnfamily
).
You could also get some more meta info from system.schema_columnfamilies
:
select keyspace_name, columnfamily_name, key_validator from schema_columnfamilies;