Logstash Cassandra JDBC Connection CQL Error

When executing Logstash with JDBC for Cassandra I am getting the error below

Java::ComDatastaxDriverCoreExceptions::SyntaxError: line 1:174 missing EOF at ')' (....logs_all_3_0_0 where event_id > '1970-01-01 00:00:00.000000'[)] AS...): SELECT count(*) AS "COUNT" FROM (select event_id, event_name, machine_name, payload from adamtestlog.logs_all_3_0_0 where event_id > '1970-01-01 00:00:00.000000') AS "T1" LIMIT 1 {:level=>:error, :file=>"sequel/database/logging.rb", :line=>"87", :method=>"lo
Exception when executing JDBC query {:exception=># '1970-01-01 00:0[)] AS...)>, :level=>:warn, :file=>"logstash/plugin_mixins/jdbc.rb", :line=>"219", :method=>"execute_statement"}

The config file is as follows:

input {
jdbc {
jdbc_driver_library => "/opt/logstash/bin/jdbc-jar/cassandrajdbc1.1.jar"
jdbc_driver_class => "com.dbschema.CassandraJdbcDriver"
jdbc_connection_string => "jdbc:cassandra://172.30.0.96:9042/"
jdbc_user => "*"
jdbc_password => "
"
schedule => " * * * *"
use_column_value => true
tracking_column => "event_id"
last_run_metadata_path => "/.logstash_jdbc_last_run"
statement => "select event_id, recorded_on, event_name, machine_name, payload from adamtestlog.logs_all_3_0_0 where event_id > :sql_last_value"
}
}
output{
stdout{
codec =>json_lines
}
}

My understanding is due to Cassandra it is unable to execute a select count(*) from (select * from ...) statement.