We use Lucandra as well for searching for users, as well as geo-encoding. It really works well except for numeric fields.
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-1235 That bug may be a bit of an issue, but after they release 0.6.5 all the Lucene functionality will be available to you. Todd On Mon, 2010-08-30 at 05:49 -0700, Mike Peters wrote: > Chen, > > Have you considered using http://www.slideshare.net/otisg/lucandra Lucandra > for Inbox search? > > We have a similar setup and are currently looking into using Lucandra over > implementing the searching ourselves with pure Cassandra.