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Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2011 14:03:55 +0100
From: Filip Nguyen <nguyen.filip@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Indexes and hard disk
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On 12.2.2011 13:56, Bill de hÓra wrote:
> On Fri, 2011-02-11 at 23:24 -0800, mcasandra wrote:
>> Are indexes supported in Cassandra? If yes then what kind? Also, if it's
>> supported then please point me to the place that give more information about
>> it.
> Secondary Indexes:
>
> <http://www.datastax.com/dev/blog/whats-new-cassandra-07-secondary-indexes>
> <http://pycassa.github.com/pycassa/tutorial.html#indexes>
>
Why the secondary indexes are even present in Cassandra? I thought the point is 
that development in Cassandra is query driven, that when you want to search and 
fetch for example by birth date you should create new ColumnFamilly...


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    On 12.2.2011 13:56, Bill de hÓra wrote:
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      Secondary Indexes:<br>
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    Why the secondary indexes are even present in Cassandra? I thought
    the point is that development in Cassandra is query driven, that
    when you want to search and fetch for example by birth date you
    should create new ColumnFamilly...<br>
    <br>
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