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Aleksey Yeschenko commented on CASSANDRA-6477: ---------------------------------------------- For the record, I think we should leave it to people's client code. We don't need more complexity on our read/write paths when this can be done client-side. > Partitioned indexes > ------------------- > > Key: CASSANDRA-6477 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-6477 > Project: Cassandra > Issue Type: New Feature > Components: API, Core > Reporter: Jonathan Ellis > Fix For: 3.0 > > > Local indexes are suitable for low-cardinality data, where spreading the > index across the cluster is a Good Thing. However, for high-cardinality > data, local indexes require querying most nodes in the cluster even if only a > handful of rows is returned. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.1.4#6159)