Secondary indexes require a read and a write (potentially two) for every
update. Regular mutations are no look writes and are much faster.
Just like in a RDBMS, it's more efficient to insert data and then create the
index than to insert data with the index present.
An alternative is to
Hi Aaron, thanks for the reply. I suspected it might be the
read-and-write that causes the slower updates.
Regards,
P.
On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 11:52, aaron morton aa...@thelastpickle.com wrote:
Secondary indexes require a read and a write (potentially two) for every
update. Regular mutations
