Return-Path: Delivered-To: apmail-cassandra-user-archive@www.apache.org Received: (qmail 38709 invoked from network); 7 Aug 2010 18:03:48 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail.apache.org) (140.211.11.3) by 140.211.11.9 with SMTP; 7 Aug 2010 18:03:48 -0000 Received: (qmail 97687 invoked by uid 500); 7 Aug 2010 18:03:46 -0000 Delivered-To: apmail-cassandra-user-archive@cassandra.apache.org Received: (qmail 97628 invoked by uid 500); 7 Aug 2010 18:03:46 -0000 Mailing-List: contact user-help@cassandra.apache.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Post: List-Id: Reply-To: user@cassandra.apache.org Delivered-To: mailing list user@cassandra.apache.org Received: (qmail 97620 invoked by uid 99); 7 Aug 2010 18:03:46 -0000 Received: from nike.apache.org (HELO nike.apache.org) (192.87.106.230) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with ESMTP; Sat, 07 Aug 2010 18:03:46 +0000 X-ASF-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.7 required=10.0 tests=SPF_NEUTRAL X-Spam-Check-By: apache.org Received-SPF: neutral (nike.apache.org: local policy) Received: from [74.125.82.42] (HELO mail-ww0-f42.google.com) (74.125.82.42) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with ESMTP; Sat, 07 Aug 2010 18:03:38 +0000 Received: by wwf26 with SMTP id 26so1006492wwf.1 for ; Sat, 07 Aug 2010 11:03:18 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.216.174.69 with SMTP id w47mr1346344wel.25.1281204197598; Sat, 07 Aug 2010 11:03:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.216.234.219 with HTTP; Sat, 7 Aug 2010 11:03:17 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <4C5CEA97.2010106@gmail.com> References: <4C5CEA97.2010106@gmail.com> Date: Sat, 7 Aug 2010 11:03:17 -0700 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Key level index From: Benjamin Black To: user@cassandra.apache.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Virus-Checked: Checked by ClamAV on apache.org Rows are sorted as UTF8 strings in 0.6 and byte[] in 0.7. That's it. On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 10:09 PM, Mark wrote: > In the "CassandraLimitations" wiki it states: > > " Cassandra has two levels of indexes: key and column" > > I understand how the column and subcolumn indexes work but can someone > explain to me how the key level index works? >