Cassandra does not currently have secondary indexes. The indexing you see in the code is just a mechanism to get at the (known) keys and columns quickly.
On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 3:59 PM, Vijay<[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > I think this is a very simple question and might have been asked before.... > but couldn't find answer elsewhere.... Sorry if it is repetitive. We are > trying to use Cassandre and i am stuck in the datamodel..... > Do we have indexed table? i see some classes but dont know what they will be > used for.... Is the index tell Casandra where exactly the column and the > value in the column family is located? Say i do a query for which i dont > have the rowid, i am looking for and i want to get a value of a coumn with a > specific value.... will the secoundry index help on it? or should i use > lucene to do that? > What exactly the index will do and help on? > Thanks in advance.... May be i am confused because my understanding is > completely wrong abt the index. > Regards, > </VJ>
